TY - GEN
T1 - Elements of workforce diversity in Japanese nursing workplace
AU - Yamada, Yasuyuki
AU - Mizuno, Motoki
AU - Shimizu, Teruko
AU - Asano, Yuji
AU - Iwaasa, Takumi
AU - Ebara, Takeshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15K16177.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Movement of diversity management (DM) is gradually spreading in Japanese hospitals. However little has been discussed about the effectiveness of DM in organizational ergonomics domains. Hence, this case report aimed to extract the elements of workforce diversities in Japanese nursing workplace. We conducted a semi-structured interview to four nurses with enough career to response the interview. Three were administrative nurses (male = 1, female = 2) and one was non-administrative nurse (male = 1). As the results, twelve elements of diversities with narrative evidences were extracted; (1) Seniority, (2) Career, (3) Age, (4) Gender, (5) Nationality, (6) Role orientation, (7) Employment pattern, (8) License, (9) Personality, (10) Disability, (11) Family, (12) Benefit package. According to their interviews, their workplace has been received the diversities of seniority, career, age, gender, employment pattern, disability, family and benefit package. On the other hand, they regarded the acceptance of license, personality, nationality and role orientation diversities as future issue. These diversity elements may be key points for the practical DM in Japanese nursing organization.
AB - Movement of diversity management (DM) is gradually spreading in Japanese hospitals. However little has been discussed about the effectiveness of DM in organizational ergonomics domains. Hence, this case report aimed to extract the elements of workforce diversities in Japanese nursing workplace. We conducted a semi-structured interview to four nurses with enough career to response the interview. Three were administrative nurses (male = 1, female = 2) and one was non-administrative nurse (male = 1). As the results, twelve elements of diversities with narrative evidences were extracted; (1) Seniority, (2) Career, (3) Age, (4) Gender, (5) Nationality, (6) Role orientation, (7) Employment pattern, (8) License, (9) Personality, (10) Disability, (11) Family, (12) Benefit package. According to their interviews, their workplace has been received the diversities of seniority, career, age, gender, employment pattern, disability, family and benefit package. On the other hand, they regarded the acceptance of license, personality, nationality and role orientation diversities as future issue. These diversity elements may be key points for the practical DM in Japanese nursing organization.
KW - Diversity management
KW - Nursing
KW - Organizational ergonomics
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-41688-5_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-41688-5_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84979704113
SN - 9783319416878
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 167
EP - 176
BT - Advances in Social and Occupational Ergonomics -Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Social and Occupational Ergonomics
A2 - Goossens, Richard H.M.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 7th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, 2016
Y2 - 27 July 2016 through 31 July 2016
ER -