Attractive nursing professions through autonomous pay scales

The study "Attractive nursing professions through collective bargaining autonomy" deals with the conditions and potentials of dynamic labor relations in times of a shortage of skilled workers. It examines the extent to which geriatric nurses can use the structurally improved framework conditions of the last five years to organize themselves independently and pursue an authentic form of self-articulation.

The HBS study "Collective employee action in geriatric care" conducted in 2014-16 enabled a comprehensive empirical analysis of employee interests in geriatric care. It asked about attitudes towards collective action at the (inter- ) company level. A key finding was that the majority of care workers see the state as primarily responsible for improvements in care.

Since then, social awareness of care for the elderly has grown. What is at issue, however, is whether the conditions for care workers to organize themselves and engage in an authentic form of self-articulation have improved. Five years after the last survey, the new study aims to show (dis)continuities in attitudes and actions as well as the potential for activation of care workers and to examine the differentiated interests on the employer side with a partially changed focus of investigation.