Pharmacy work: Intrinsic motivation and extrinsic rewards across role and setting.

Background: Pharmacists' and pharmacy technicians' stress and job turnover are at an all-time high. Both intrinsic motivations and extrinsic rewards play key roles in workplace satisfaction. Differences in workplace satisfaction have been identified when comparing chain pharmacies, independent pharmacies, and health systems work settings.

Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context.

Status and workplace context directly affect employee experiences at work. This study looks at an understudied essential health professional group: pharmacy workers. Using survey data from 298 pharmacy workers in the United States we test how status, status shields, and work context relate to perceptions of one's work.

The Structuration of Community-Based Mental Health Care: A Duality Analysis of a Volunteer Group's Local Agency.

Using a lens of structuration theory, this study highlights the ways that specific structures within the current community-based model of mental health care might enable and constrain individuals and families living with mental illness. Through a case study of a volunteer mental illness advocacy group, the authors employed a duality analysis on a variety of data collected from the case (i.e.