Dr Stacey Bushfield's Outputs (14)

Understanding and Assessing Medical Engagement: A New Toolkit and ‘Killer’ Questions You Might Want to Ask of Doctors (2025)
Journal Article
Martin, G., Staines, H., & Bushfield, S. (in press). Understanding and Assessing Medical Engagement: A New Toolkit and ‘Killer’ Questions You Might Want to Ask of Doctors. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance,

Purpose
Using theory on institutional logics and identity work, we examine why many doctors disengage from their organisations. We also develop a research-based, practical tool to improve medical engagement and medical leadership.

Method
Draw... Read More about Understanding and Assessing Medical Engagement: A New Toolkit and ‘Killer’ Questions You Might Want to Ask of Doctors.

Hospital Doctors' Trust Relations at Work: A Multi-Case Analysis (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bozic, B., Bushfield, S., & Martin, G. (2025, July). Hospital Doctors' Trust Relations at Work: A Multi-Case Analysis. Presented at 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM 2025), Copenhagen

In the organizational trust literature low trust and distrust are increasingly seen as two distinct but related concepts. We offer an in-depth analysis of how low domain-specific workplace trust and distrust transitions into high distrust among senio... Read More about Hospital Doctors' Trust Relations at Work: A Multi-Case Analysis.

Integrating Employees’ Identities into Employer Brand Development: Collective Identity Work in a Multinational Enterprise (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sinclair, K., Martin, G., & Bushfield, S. (2024, September). Integrating Employees’ Identities into Employer Brand Development: Collective Identity Work in a Multinational Enterprise. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Conference, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University

Organisations are increasingly turning to employer branding to attract, recruit and engage employees. Yet, we do not fully understand how employees’ organisational experiences can shape employer branding. This study contributes to our theoretical and... Read More about Integrating Employees’ Identities into Employer Brand Development: Collective Identity Work in a Multinational Enterprise.

Examining the Trust to Distrust Transition: A Tri-Phase Multi-Case Study Analysis of Hospital Doctors' Work Experiences and Trust Dynamics (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bushfield, S., Bozic, B., & Martin, G. (2024, June). Examining the Trust to Distrust Transition: A Tri-Phase Multi-Case Study Analysis of Hospital Doctors' Work Experiences and Trust Dynamics. Paper presented at Sustainable HRM and Working-Life Practices Conference 2024, Centre for Global HRM, University of Gothenburg

Resistance by Exiting: Senior Doctors Work Orientations and Intensions to Retire (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bushfield, S., Martin, G., & Staines, H. (2023, September). Resistance by Exiting: Senior Doctors Work Orientations and Intensions to Retire. Presented at Work, Employment and Society Conference, Glasgow, UK

The NHS in Scotland (NHSS) is facing an unprecedented financial and operational challenges (Audit Scotland, 2023). Current staff are working under extreme pressure. Frustrations around workload, pay, and pensions are leading professionals to use thei... Read More about Resistance by Exiting: Senior Doctors Work Orientations and Intensions to Retire.

Senior Hospital Doctors’ Intentions to Retire in NHS Scotland (2023)
Report
Martin, G., Staines, H., & Bushfield, S. (2023). Senior Hospital Doctors’ Intentions to Retire in NHS Scotland. Dundee: NHS Scotland employers, BMA Scotland, and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties in Scotland

A survey of senior hospital doctors’ intentions to retire (ITR) and intentions to scale down of work commitments in NHS Scotland.

The results of the largest and most comprehensive survey of senior hospital doctors’ retirement plans and work commi... Read More about Senior Hospital Doctors’ Intentions to Retire in NHS Scotland.

Leadership identity construction in a hybrid medical context: ‘Claimed’ but not ‘granted' (2023)
Journal Article
Howieson, B., Bushfield, S., & Martin, G. (2024). Leadership identity construction in a hybrid medical context: ‘Claimed’ but not ‘granted'. European Management Journal, 42(5), 745-756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.012

In the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS), the growing number of hybrid clinical leaders has given rise to professional practice and identity struggles. Co-construction theories of leadership point to a need for leaders to engage in signifi... Read More about Leadership identity construction in a hybrid medical context: ‘Claimed’ but not ‘granted'.

Internal Employer Branding in Global Organisations: An Identity Perspective (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sinclair, K., Martin, G., & Bushfield, S. Internal Employer Branding in Global Organisations: An Identity Perspective

An increasing number of organizations are turning to employer branding to attract and recruit potential applicants, as well as engage and retain existing employees. But what we know about the impact of employer brands on current employees and their o... Read More about Internal Employer Branding in Global Organisations: An Identity Perspective.

Changing Logics in Healthcare and Their Effects on the Identity Motives and Identity Work of Doctors (2020)
Journal Article
Martin, G., Bushfield, S., Siebert, S., & Howieson, B. (2021). Changing Logics in Healthcare and Their Effects on the Identity Motives and Identity Work of Doctors. Organization Studies, 42(9), 1477-1499. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619895871

Recent literature on hybridity has provided useful insights into how professionals have responded to changing institutional logics. Our focus in on how shifting logics have shaped senior medical professionals’ identity motives and identity work in a... Read More about Changing Logics in Healthcare and Their Effects on the Identity Motives and Identity Work of Doctors.

Internal Perceptions of Employer Branding: A Review and Conceptual Framework (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sinclair, K., Martin, G., & Bushfield, S. (2019, September). Internal Perceptions of Employer Branding: A Review and Conceptual Framework. Presented at BAM 2019, Aston University, Birmingham

This development paper looks at the employer branding process through an engagement perspective with a focus on the internal - existing employees, managers and processes/practices. It addresses this issue by building a conceptual framework, which inv... Read More about Internal Perceptions of Employer Branding: A Review and Conceptual Framework.

Eroding ‘Respectability’: Deprofessionalization through organizational spaces (2017)
Journal Article
Siebert, S., Bushfield, S., Martin, G., & Howieson, B. (2018). Eroding ‘Respectability’: Deprofessionalization through organizational spaces. Work, Employment and Society, 32(2), 330-347. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017017726948

This article addresses the question – can a deterioration in organizational spaces erode a profession’s status? It draws on the organizational spaces literature to analyse the relationship between design of the physical work setting and senior doctor... Read More about Eroding ‘Respectability’: Deprofessionalization through organizational spaces.

How do Elite Doctors Respond to Tensions in Hybrid Healthcare Organizations? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martin, G., Siebert, S., Howieson, B., & Bushfield, S. (2017, August). How do Elite Doctors Respond to Tensions in Hybrid Healthcare Organizations?. Presented at Academy of Management Proceedings 2017, United States

In this paper we explain how and why elite doctors in public service healthcare respond to increasing hybridity through different forms of identity work, accommodation and resistance. We draw on a conceptual framework developed by Besharov and Smith... Read More about How do Elite Doctors Respond to Tensions in Hybrid Healthcare Organizations?.

The changing experience of work of consultants in NHS Scotland. (2015)
Report
Martin, G., Siebert, S., Howieson, B., & Bushfield, S. (2015). The changing experience of work of consultants in NHS Scotland. British Medical Association

This study was commissioned by the Scottish Consultants’ Committee of the British Medical Association and carried out by independent researchers at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow during the period May 2014-March 2015. We sought understand cha... Read More about The changing experience of work of consultants in NHS Scotland..

Potential challenges facing distributed leadership in health care: evidence from the UK National Health Service (2014)
Journal Article
Martin, G., Beech, N., MacIntosh, R., & Bushfield, S. (2015). Potential challenges facing distributed leadership in health care: evidence from the UK National Health Service. Sociology of health and illness, 37(1), 14-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12171

The discourse of leaderism in health care has been a subject of much academic and practical debate. Recently, distributed leadership (DL) has been adopted as a key strand of policy in the UK National Health Service (NHS). However, there is some confu... Read More about Potential challenges facing distributed leadership in health care: evidence from the UK National Health Service.