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 editors: Mankki, Laura; Aho, Timo; Hirvonen, Helena
Journal or series: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
ISSN: 2325-4823
eISSN: 2325-4815
Publication year: 2023
Publication date: 19/12/2022
Volume: 10
Issue number: 2
Pages range: 309-330
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication country: United Kingdom
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2022.2156905
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Partially 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.
Keywords: public health service; leadership (activity); leadership (properties); management education; lean manufacturing; influences; effects (results); influencing; cognition; emotions; experiences (knowledge); common sense; sociality; materiality; capitalism
Free keywords: affect; biocapitalism; common sense; health care; Lean management; sociomateriality
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Ministry reporting: Yes
Reporting Year: 2022
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