Title: Professionals and policy : management strategy in a competitive world /
Authors: Bottery, Mike.
Publisher: Cassell,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Professional corporations Management.; Professional employees.; Knowledge workers.
Abstract: "In this timely and original book, Mike Bottery describes and evaluates the issues currently facing professionals working in education and health. Through a series of in-depth case studies in schools and hospitals, he shows that there is a great deal to be learned by sharing experiences. He also argues that a radical reappraisal of aims and values is required if professionals in the two fields are to continue to make positive contributions to society in the coming years."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: 1. The Limiting of Vision -- 2. Local Education Authority and Voluntary Aided Schools -- Change and Resistance -- 3. Trust Hospitals -- Cultures Apart? -- 4. Grant-maintained Schools -- a Brave New World of Education? -- 5. Private Hospitals -- Blurring the Edges? -- 6. Independent Schools -- Businesses, Idylls or Ideals? -- 7. The Death of the Welfare State -- 8. Beginning a Professional Response -- 9. Redefining the Role of the Professional.