title: Managing professional work: three models of control for health organizations.
abstract: Three arrangements for structuring the work of professional participants in professional organizations are described, contrasted and evaluated. Arguments are illustrated by application to the organization of physicians within hospitals. The primary rationale, the support structures that have fostered its development, the key structural features and the advantages and disadvantages of each arrangement are described. The effect on these arrangements of structures and forces external to any particular professional organization is emphasized.
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D006739:Hospital Administration; D007325:Institutional Practice / Q000458:organization & administration; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods*; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*