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Collaborating in primary healthcare: Practices fostering meaningful organizational routines
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE), Business Administration.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0842-6941
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE), Business Administration.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2495-9676
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In primary healthcare, various professions and roles need to collaborate to treat the constant influx of patients. Notorious problems of stress, high workload, high staff turnover, etcetera, make dealing with this collaboration even more challenging. Well-functioning organizational routines are needed to coordinate work, ensure patient safety, and the correct and equal treatment of patients. However, if the routines are perceived as meaningless, there is a high risk that professionals will deviate from them. Therefore, it is essential that the routine is perceived as meaningful to motivate all those involved to uphold the routine. Although the subjective meaningfulness of work has been extensively researched, it has yet to be connected to organizational routines. We, therefore, explore how meaningfulness can be enabled in organizational routines. Based on a thematic analysis of interviews with staff at three primary care units, six sources that make routines perceived as meaningful were identified. Also, we discuss two types of organizational practices that can foster meaningfulness in routines. Our findings have significant implications for healthcare organizations and are relevant for organizations in other contexts where different professional groups collaborate.

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2024.
Keywords [en]
collaborating, routines, meaningful, healthcare
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Business Administration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-229237OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-229237DiVA, id: diva2:1895499
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27th NFF Conference. Reykjavík, Iceland, August 15–17, 2024
Available from: 2024-09-05 Created: 2024-09-05 Last updated: 2024-09-12Bibliographically approved

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