A1 Journal article (refereed)
Common sense put to work : The capitalisation of affects in the introduction of a Lean management model to healthcare professionals (2023)


Mankki, L., Aho, T., & Hirvonen, H. (2023). Common sense put to work : The capitalisation of affects in the introduction of a Lean management model to healthcare professionals. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 10(2), 309-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2022.2156905


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Publication details

All authors or editorsMankki, Laura; Aho, Timo; Hirvonen, Helena

Journal or seriesEuropean Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

ISSN2325-4823

eISSN2325-4815

Publication year2023

Publication date19/12/2022

Volume10

Issue number2

Pages range309-330

PublisherTaylor & Francis

Publication countryUnited Kingdom

Publication languageEnglish

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2022.2156905

Publication open accessOpenly available

Publication channel open accessPartially open access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX)https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/84702


Abstract

This article investigates how Lean model is introduced in a management training course targeted at healthcare professionals in Finland. Lean management originated in the Japanese car industry; since the 1990s it has become a key management doctrine for healthcare reform in Western welfare states. Drawing on ethnographic research on a two-day Lean management training course in 2019, and by applying the analytical lenses of affects and sociomateriality, the article illustrates how Lean is made attractive to healthcare professionals. The article results that Lean training serves as an example of complex mechanism of biocapitalist production in which people’s cognition, feelings, sensitivities and experiences are transformed into tools of labour and are put to work through common sense. Methodologically, the article demonstrates in an illuminating fashion how capitalisation of affects may be studied.


Keywordspublic health serviceleadership (activity)leadership (properties)management educationlean manufacturinginfluenceseffects (results)influencingcognitionemotionsexperiences (knowledge)common sensesocialitymaterialitycapitalism

Free keywordsaffect; biocapitalism; common sense; health care; Lean management; sociomateriality


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Ministry reportingYes

Reporting Year2022

JUFO rating1


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