TY - BOOK AU - Raveyre,Marie AU - Ughetto,Pascal TI - Work: The Forgotten Factor of Hospital Restructuring PY - 2003///. N1 - 51 N2 - Hospital reorganisation occurs in a context where staff have already been strongly affected by changes in work practices in recent years. Nonetheless, the organisation of work has not really been adapted to enable them to cope. As a result, restructuring, rather than providing solutions to existing inadequacies, operates to reveal and amplify workplace tensions. Observation suggests that work tends to be ignored in reorganisation processes, which focus primarily on management of structural and formal issues. In many cases, hospital workers themselves compensate pragmatically for defective work organisation by coordinating themselves within departments. In hospitals, this self-regulatory capacity relies on a strong collective identity shared by the whole staff. It also, however, has a downside, in that it tends to increase the mental pressures of the job UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-des-affaires-sociales-2003-3-page-95?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -