| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,426,548 (Direct Cost: ¥4,174,268、Indirect Cost: ¥1,252,280)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,396,548 (Direct Cost: ¥1,074,268、Indirect Cost: ¥322,280)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This research aims at seeking the feasibility of change for the realization of work-life balance in the corporate culture of the nursing profession, commonly regarded as a "women's job", and investigating its mechanism, with special attention to the flexible working hours. To achieve this goal, we have accomplished (1) the examination of literature and (2) the construction of theoretical framework.
The examination of literature reveals the long working hours the nurses are engaged in and their high turnover in the event of marriage and childbirth. When they continue working, the nurses' work polarizes between a daytime part-timer serving only outpatients and a shift worker in the hospital ward upon the end of the maternity leave. We have found that the corporate culture of the nursing profession has idealized the "male regular employee model."
For the purpose of understanding how that culture has been constructed in the nursing profession, we deem it important to construct the methodology based upon the following two analytical viewpoints. First, in order to examine the differences in working patterns among female nurses, we rely on the argument of R. Connell, "the transition of attention from differences to relations". Second, in order to take account of the care responsibility the nurses have within their own families, we adopt the viewpoint that harmonizes paid-work with other part of life.
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