{"product_id":"9788763002448","title":"Elderly Care in Transition: Management, Meaning and Identity at Work. A Scandinavian Perspective","description":"\u003cp\u003eWork in elderly care in Scandinavia is a principal occupation and a life career, and constitutes an important part of professionalized care work. This sector has over the last decade become a test piece for New Public Management (NIPM): It is the area where NPM inspired rationales and methodologies to the greatest extent have been attempted applied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the challenges and future possibilities in the elderly care from a working life perspective. Eight researchers from the three Scandinavian countries present new studies of the daily work in elderly care, the change of tasks and services, and the reconstruction of a semi-profession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe specific translation of NPM into the Scandinavian context is described in the book, and it is examined how this affects:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeaning and identity of work in elderly care, and possibilities to reconstruct meaning under standardised working conditions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew ideals of line management of elderly care and ambiguities between bureaucracy and professionalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubjectivity and emotions as a decisive element of the work in elderly care\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe creation of new professionalism in 'pockets' of the sector\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shifts in valuation of experience based knowledge and care orientation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book draws attention to new trends in the sector that may give way for transgressing the logic of NPM, and thus points to possibilities to enrich working life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copenhagen Business School Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059914948848,"sku":"9788763002448","price":33.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9788763002448_p0.jpg?v=1763751143","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9788763002448","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}