Malmö University Publications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Required qualifications in the Swedish Public Dental Health Service as indicators of organizational ideology
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Odontology (OD).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1113-6766
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Odontology (OD).
2001 (English)In: Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, ISSN 0001-6357, E-ISSN 1502-3850, Vol. 59, no 6, p. 396-405Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Th e manifestly required qualifications in job advertisements in theJournal of the Swedish Dental Associationwere analyzed as indicators of th e organizational ideology in the Swedish Public Dental Health Servicefro m the employers’ viewpoint. Al l job advertisements that concerned dentists an d managers on differenthierarchical level   s in general dentistry from January 199  0 to December 199  8 were included (n= 1152).Th e number of vacancies was 1856 . Th e textual material wa s analyzed by content analysis, permittingquantitative descriptions of the tex t and analysis of th e laten t characteristics. Words an d phrases wereclassified into categories on different level   s of abstraction developed fro m the theoretical background an dthe purpose of the study. Altogether 5705 required qualifications wer  e categorized. Th e inter-coderreliability of  the first-level categorization resulted in 81% correspondence of the classification, an dl= 0.90 . Qualifications wer  e mor   e frequently required wit h higher hierarchical jo b positions, an dpersonality characteristics were mor   e frequent tha  n technical competence an d knowledge. Qualificationsinterpreted as related to economic goal   s occurred mor   e frequently than thos  e related to odontologicalgoals. The qualification demands reflected the language of human resource management (HR M),emphasizing the ‘soft  ’ people-centered approach an d was interpreted as an ‘ideal   ’ model of HRM. Dentistswere regarded as a profitable organizational asse  t rather tha  n participants in relations wit h patients. Inconclusion, the results indicate an  organizational ideology primarily of economic character.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis Group, 2001. Vol. 59, no 6, p. 396-405
National Category
Dentistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-59384DOI: 10.1080/000163501317153266ISI: 000172759900011PubMedID: 11831491Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-0035749025OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-59384DiVA, id: diva2:1753717
Available from: 2023-04-28 Created: 2023-04-28 Last updated: 2023-11-17Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textPubMedScopus

Authority records

Franzén, CeciliaSöderfeldt, Björn

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Franzén, CeciliaSöderfeldt, Björn
By organisation
Faculty of Odontology (OD)
In the same journal
Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
Dentistry

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn
Total: 17 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf