Main description:

There are 60 million health care workers globally and most of this workforce consists of nurses, as they are key providers of primary health care. Historically, the global nurse occupation has been predominately female and segregated along gendered, racialised and classed hierarchies. In the last decade, new actors have emerged in the management of health care human resources, specifically from the corporate sector, which has created new interactions, networks, and organisational practices.

This book urgently calls for the reconceptualisation in the theoretical framing of the globalised nurse occupation from International Human Resource Management (IHRM) to Transnational Human Resource Management (THRM). Specifically, the book draws on critical human resource management literature and transnational feminist theories to frame the strategies and practices used to manage nurses across geographical sites of knowledge production and power, which centralise on how and by whom nurses are managed. In its current managerial form, the author argues that the nurses are constructed and produced as resources to be packaged for clients in public and private organisations.

Contents:

TRANSNATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF GLOBALISED WORKERS: NURSES BEYOND HUMAN RESOURCES
Introduction

Transnational human resource management of nurse labour

Aim of the book

The structure of the book

FRAMING: PART ONE

PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSNATIONALISATION OF CARE AND THE NURSE LABOUR MARKET
Transnational nurse labour migration: a macro overview

Regional and global flows of transnational nurse migration

Traditional nurse-migration patterns

Gendered migration of labour

Global care economies

Global care chains

Global Nurse Care Chains

Transnationalisation of care and producer-based care networks

Nurse work as gendered and racialised labour in work organisations

Coping management of nurse work

Inequality regimes in work organisations

Neoliberalism governance within the transnationalisation of care

Summary and concluding thoughts

FRAMING TRANSNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF NURSE LABOUR
Critical engagement within international human resource management

Critical theorists in HRM and IHRM

Transnational Feminisms

Organisations and institutional barriers to equality in a globalised world: the work of Joan Acker

Postmodernism and transnational organising: the work of Marta B. Calas and Linda Smircich

Outside organisations and outside the 'international': the work of Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan

Outside organisations and neocolonial structural controls: the work of Chandra Mohanty

Working with transnational feminism(s)

Transnational human resource management: the case of producer-based care networks

Summary and concluding thoughts

SITUATING: PART TWO

REPRESENTATIVES AND SOCIAL WORLDS IN TRANSNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF NURSE LABOUR
A situated approach to mapping transnational human resource management of nurses

Collecting data on the conditions of the situated story

Representative entrepreneurs, implicated actors, and social worlds

Interviews: gaining access to social worlds

Documentary method: material presence of social relations and actions

Participatory observations: maps, memos, and reflection of the situation and its social worlds/arenas

Research diary entries and personal reflection/self-analysis

Research interest situated in lived experience

Summary and concluding thoughts

MAPPING SOCIAL WORLDS THROUGH DISCOURSE, TEXT, AND MATERIALITY
What is discourse and why analyse it?

Varieties of discourse analysis

Core dimensions of discourse analysis

Theoretical approaches to discourse analysis

The material-discursive and multi-domains approach to discourse

Discourse analysis of this research: some comments about linguistic language use and situated knowledge

Situational analysis as approach to discourse, power and materiality

Ordered situational maps

Social worlds/Arena Maps

Positions in discourses

Summary and concluding thoughts

A SITUATION: PART 3

TRANSNATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF NURSES IN PRODUCER-BASED CARE NETWORKS IN FINLAND
Establishing the arena of producer-based care networks

Preparing for import: making a case out of the recruitment of nurses from the Philippines

Pioneering the supply practice of transnational nursing labour

Making Finland attractive to recruit immigrant professional workers public representatives asserting more dominance

The legitimisation of nurse imports during economic recession

Situating transnational management of nurses

Summary and concluding thoughts

DISCURSIVE POSITIONS AND STRUCTURAL BARRIERS TO EQUALITY IN TRANSNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
The Philippines as a source for nurse human capital and the warm, optimistic Filipino nurse

Standardised work requirements of Filipino nurses and the use of Finnish language in the workplace

Organising the general requirements

Class hierarchies

Recruitment and hiring

Wage setting and supervisory practices

Informal interactions while 'doing work'

Discursive positions on ethical recruitment

Structural inequality barriers through transnational human resource practices

Summary and concluding thoughts

CONCLUSIONS

Mapping the social worlds of transnational human resource management

Transnational human resource management: a theoretical contribution

Transnational human resource management of nurses: an empirical contribution

Mapping social worlds in the arena of producer-based care networks: a methodological contribution

Policy implications

Not the end of the journey: future research possibilities