How to claim what is mine: Negotiating professional roles in inter-organizational projects

Abstract Professional roles within inter-organizational projects have become increasingly diverse and contested, yet little is known about how professionals react to such threats of marginalization. Drawing on empirical data from interviews with architects, a profession in which historically established role boundaries have become particularly blurred, we analyse how professionals negotiate their roles in inter-organizational projects. We identified three types of boundary work—reinstating, bending, and pioneering role boundaries—and illustrate their antecedents and effects for project collaboration. These categories exemplify different responses to the threat of marginalization depending upon professionals’ perceptions of what the specific project called for. Our study provides important insights into boundary work practices emerging in the context of inter-organizational projects and how professionals adjust their claims-making to perceived opportunities, thereby triggering incremental as well as more radical changes in the professional role structures.

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EXPRESS: Professional Boundaries in-Action: Using Reflective Spaces for Boundary Work to Incorporate a New Health Care Role

Human Relations ◽

10.1177/00187267211010363 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 001872672110103

Author(s):

Nina Lunkka ◽

Noora Jansson ◽

Tuija Mainela ◽

Marjo Suhonen ◽

Merja Meriläinen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Boundary Work ◽

Institutional Context ◽

Professional Role ◽

Division Of Labour ◽

University Hospital ◽

Professional Boundaries ◽

Naturally Occurring ◽

Transformative Potential ◽

Professional Boundary

Prior research on professional boundary work emphasises the importance of subtle interactions among affected individuals when a new role is inserted into an established professional setting, which inevitably changes the prevalent division of labour. Thus, managers may set reflective spaces for professionals to collaboratively arrange their boundaries and make room for the new professional. This ethnomethodologically oriented study examines boundary arrangements in work development meetings in a university hospital, while professionals made room for a new role, a hospitalist. Examining professionals’ naturally occurring interactions in reflective spaces, the findings depict seven categorisations for the hospitalist. Elaborating on the dynamics of these categorisations, we propose that technically based categorisations sustain stability and context-bound categorisations allow change in work practices, whereas their combination enables transformation within the institutional context. Accordingly, the study adds to the literature on the transformative potential of reflective spaces by illuminating the intertwining of engaged professionals’ boundary talk-in-interaction with the consequences of configurational boundary work in relation to a new professional role.

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Setting and maintaining professional role boundaries: an educational strategy

Medical Education ◽

10.1111/j.1365-2929.2004.01894.x ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 38 (8) ◽

pp. 903-910 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Gillian E White

Keyword(s):

Professional Role ◽

Educational Strategy ◽

Role Boundaries

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Moral Character and Exemplification in Professional, Public, and Political Life

International Journal of Applied Philosophy ◽

10.5840/ijap2019729113 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 57-70

Author(s):

David Carr ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Service ◽

Moral Character ◽

Professional Role ◽

Political Life ◽

Professional Roles ◽

Public Service Employment ◽

Private Lives ◽

Inherent Part ◽

Service Employment

While qualities of good character are of great significance and value in human social and professional affairs—and conduct which at least conforms to such qualities is invariably required for public service employment—they cannot be a requirement of the private lives of citizens in free societies. That said, there seems more of a case for the personal possession of such qualities in the case of those human professions and services for which moral exemplification to others may be considered an inherent part of the professional role. After some consideration of arguments for and against such moral character exemplification in relation to such professional roles as religious ministry and teaching, this paper proceeds to make some case for politics as professional role of this exemplificatory kind.

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Remedial Boundary Work and Gatekeeper Centrality in a Virtual Entrepreneur Community

Frontiers in Communication ◽

10.3389/fcomm.2021.753329 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Author(s):

Jessica J. Santana

Keyword(s):

Communities Of Practice ◽

Community Of Practice ◽

Social Exchange ◽

Network Structure ◽

Empirical Data ◽

Virtual Communities ◽

Boundary Work ◽

Community Network ◽

Open Network ◽

Virtual Communities Of Practice

Virtual communities of practice invoke novel forms of boundary work that are newly visible via publicly recorded discourse and failure narratives. This boundary work has critical implications for occupational knowledge, membership, and stratification. Building on social exchange theorization of network gatekeeping, the author tests the assumption that centralized peers are more competitive gatekeepers, in that they react more negatively to remedial narratives. The author tests this theory using empirical data from a virtual entrepreneur community on Reddit. The author finds that a peer’s tenure in the community network is directly related to exclusive, competitive boundary work of remedial members. However, by looking beyond the network structure to the content of the tie, the author finds that exclusive boundary work is not as impactful as inclusive, collaborative boundary work in this open network setting. The author builds on relational cohesion and exchange commitment theory to explain how remedial practitioners circumvent central community gatekeepers through failure narratives that provoke empathy from peripheral peers who experience higher uncertainty than core peers. Understanding these dynamics is critical to promoting recovery from failure and vitality of the community of practice.

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PAKAIAN SERAGAM PERAWAT: SEBUAH RANCANGAN PENELITIAN

CORAK ◽

10.24821/corak.v7i1.2649 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 79-88

Author(s):

Deni Arifiana ◽

G.R. Lono Lastoro Simatupang ◽

SP. Gustami

Keyword(s):

Uniform Design ◽

Professional Role ◽

Professional Roles ◽

Functional Design ◽

Functional Requirements ◽

Clothing Design ◽

Professional Needs ◽

Design Requirements

The nurse's uniform is the main supporter of the nurse in performing her professional roles at the hospital.Therefore, the nurse's uniform is designed to meet the needs of her professional role in the hospital, although in practice the nurse's uniform is not always able to function properly.This article aims to identify the variables that need to be considered in the study of professional uniform design, especially nurses. The hope, this paper can contribute to the design of similar studies. Assessment of the design of nurse uniforms is done through literature and document studies, with the scope of the in-patient nurses' uniforms.This article shows that the variables that need to be considered in the study of professional uniform design, especially the nurse, cover the professional needs and criteria for the design requirements of professional uniform. The stages that need to be done in analyzing the functional design of professional uniform are grouped into 4 stages, including: stage identifying the needs of the profession; determine the functional requirements of the profession; establishing criteria for the design of professional uniforms; and the stage reflects the functional needs of the profession into the clothing design. Pakaian seragam perawat merupakan pendukung utama perawat dalam menjalankan aktifitas peran profesinya di rumah sakit. Maka dari itu, pakaian seragam perawat dirancang untuk memenuhi kebutuhan profesinya di rumah sakit, kendati pada praktiknya pakaian seragam perawat tidak selalu dapat berfungsi sebagaimana mestinya.Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi variabel-variabel yang perlu dipertimbangkan dalam penelitian desain pakaian seragam profesi, khususnya perawat. Harapannya, tulisan ini dapat berkontribusi bagi perancangan penelitian-penelitian sejenis. Pengkajian terhadap desain pakaian seragam perawat dilakukan melalui studi literatur dan dokumen, dengan ruang lingkup pada pakaian seragam perawat rawat inap.Tulisan ini menunjukkan bahwa variabel-variabel yang perlu dipertimbangkan dalam penelitian desain pakaian seragam profesi (perawat), mencakup kebutuhan-kebutuhan profesi dan kriteria persyaratan desain pakaian seragam profesi. Adapun tahapan yang perlu dilakukan dalam menganalisis fungsional desain pakaian seragam profesi dikelompokkan ke dalam 4 tahap, meliputi: tahap mengidentifikasi kebutuhan profesi; menetapkan kebutuhan fungsional profesi; menetapkan kriteria desain pakaian seragam profesi; dan tahap merefleksikan kebutuhan fungsional profesi ke dalam desain pakaian. Kata-kata kunci: pakaian-seragam, perawat, rancangan-penelitian

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Professional Roles as the Structural Component of Professional Identity of Higher Education Teachers in Samples of Riga and Smolensk

Economics and Culture ◽

10.1515/jec-2017-0013 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 5-11

Author(s):

Jelena Jermolajeva ◽

Svetlana Silchenkova

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Education Reform ◽

Professional Identity ◽

Structural Model ◽

Professional Role ◽

Educational Process ◽

Professional Roles ◽

High Level ◽

Role Activity

AbstractThe strengthening of professional identity (PI) of teachers of higher education institutions (HEI) is one of the ways to improve the quality of educational process. Performance of professional role(s) can be identified as the key component of PI. The contemporary university teacher performs many professional roles: she/he is a lecturer, researcher, supervisor of students’ research works, expert, and so on. Multi-role activity of a teacher is considered as a characteristic feature of the profession by the colleagues in Latvia, Russia and other countries. This research is based on the data obtained during the implementation of the Project ‘Professional Identity of Contemporary Pedagogue’ in 2014–2016 by the researchers from Riga (Latvia) and Smolensk (Russia). In the realization of the project, the six-component structural model of the content of HEI teacher’s PI was created and the survey was carried out using the questionnaire ‘HEI Teachers’ Professional Identity’ developed by the project participants. Overall, a total of 198 teachers were surveyed in Riga and Smolensk. The aim of this article was to analyze and compare the data obtained for the PI component ‘Professional Roles’ in the samples of HEI teachers of both the countries. The data were analysed using statistical methods. The results showed that teachers of both the countries perform their professional roles at a high level. Overall, the answers of teachers of the two countries were well agreed. However, some peculiarities in the data of Riga and Smolensk were observed, and some problems of PI of HEI teachers were identified, which require attention of executives of the education reform and teachers.

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Professional role of family assistants in the light of qualitative analyses

Praca Socjalna ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0014.4427 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (5) ◽

pp. 79-98

Author(s):

Marta Czechowska-Bieluga ◽

Barbara Sordyl-Lipnicka

Keyword(s):

Professional Role ◽

Professional Roles ◽

Joint Work ◽

The Family ◽

Standard Manner ◽

The Subject ◽

Almost All ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Qualitative Analyses

The aim of the study was to identify the role fulfilled by family assistants, along with the subject-matter of their tasks, obstacles they encounter, and favourable factors. Professional role was treated as a framework for professional functioning and experiences of the family assistants participating in the study. The presented material originates from five individual, semi-structured in-depth interviews with family assistants. The results of the study revealed that, to some extent, almost all assistants fulfil their own professional roles in a non-standard manner, although the statements they made have a common characteristic: awareness of the importance of trust in their joint work with families. Moreover, family assistants are characterised as experiencing some difficulties that appear to be the combination of various components. The participants verbalise the conviction that they create their professional roles themselves, which are determined, to some extent, also by the families they support, their managers, and social workers.

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Relational Encounters and Vital Materiality in the Practice of Craft Work

Organization Studies ◽

10.1177/0170840619866482 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (5) ◽

pp. 681-701 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Emma Bell ◽

Sheena J. Vachhani

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Study ◽

Empirical Data ◽

The Body ◽

Organizational Practice ◽

Work Practices ◽

Organization Studies ◽

Organizational Relations ◽

Materialist Theory ◽

A Site

Practice-based studies of organization have drawn attention to the importance of the body as a site of knowledge and knowing. However, relational encounters between bodies and objects, and the affects they generate, are less well understood in organization studies. This article uses new materialist theory to explore the role of affect in embodied practices of craft making. It suggests that craft work relies on affective organizational relations and intensities that flow between bodies, objects and places of making. This perspective enables a more affective, materially inclusive understanding of organizational practice, as encounters between human and nonhuman entities and forces. We draw on empirical data from a qualitative study of four UK organizations that make bicycles, shoes and hand-decorated pottery. We track the embodied techniques that enable vital encounters with matter and the affective traces and spatial, aesthetic atmospheres that emerge from these encounters. We suggest that a concern with the vitality of objects is central to the meaning that is attributed to craft work practices and the ethical sensibilities that arise from these encounters. We conclude by proposing an affective ethics of mattering that constructs agency in ways that are not confined to humans and acknowledges the importance of orientations towards matter in generating possibilities for ethical generosity towards others.

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