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How do workers cope in no-win situations? Midwives found out the hard way during the pandemic

  • Written by James Greenslade-Yeats, Research Fellow in Management, Auckland University of Technology
How do workers cope in no-win situations? Midwives found out the hard way during the pandemicEldar Nurkovic/Shutterstock

During the pandemic, midwives faced what researchers call a “pragmatic paradox” – a situation where contradictory demands are imposed on individuals who can neither refuse nor fulfil the demands.

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