TY - UNPD A1 - Saunders, Katharina Maria A1 - Hagist, Christian A1 - McGuire, Alistair A1 - Schlereth, Christian T1 - Nursing without caring? N2 - We know that existing professions in the health care sector value work environment and job conditions to a great extent. However, we are also witnessing an expansion of new roles into the health care sector, many of which substitutie the tasks of existing professions. This may be efficient, in that it releases professionals’ time. However, there is little understanding of what motivates these new professions in entering or remaining in these newly created roles. This study tries to evaluate the preference structure of one of these new staff groups, surgical technologist, through examining the preferences of trainees, defined over a number of attributes, in this group. The DCE study covers 80% of the target population. The results show a vigorous disfavour towards any perceived nursing job characteristics such as caring activities, hierarchical work environment or shift types. The results inform policy makers and hospital manager about the importance to focus not only on the nursing profession but also to take into account the existence of a group of people who is willing to work within the health care system however, associated with strong preferences against nursing activities, especially caring. Implementing and further development of new and specialised profession through reallocating former nursing tasks- should be considered while coping with labour shortage. T3 - WHU – Working Paper Series in Economics - WP 19/02 KW - Gesundheitswesen KW - Healthcare sector KW - Spezialisierter Gesundheitsberuf KW - Spezialisierung KW - Specialised health care profession KW - Arbeitskräftemangel KW - Fachkräftemangel KW - Labour shortage KW - Berufspräferenzen KW - Job preferences KW - Diskretes Entscheidungsexperiment KW - Discrete Choice Experiment KW - DCE Y1 - 2019 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-whu/frontdoor/index/index/docId/743 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:992-opus4-7433 PB - WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management CY - Vallendar ER -