Title: The end of the professions? : the restructuring of professional work /
Authors: Broadbent, Jane; Dietrich, Michael.; Roberts, Jennifer, 1966-; Dietrich, Michael, 1953-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Professional corporations Management.; Corporate reorganizations.
Abstract: Professions and professional activity are undergoing dramatic changes as we approach the millennium. This interdisciplinary volume presents an overview of conceptual issues and considers the practical issues facing professionals today. It has two key objectives: to understand the nature of the changes in professional activity; and to see this restructuring in the context of wider socio-economic processes.
Contents: The end of the professions? / Jane Broadbent, Michael Dietrich and Jennifer Roberts -- Beyond the economics of professionalism / Michael Dietrich and Jennifer Roberts -- Accounting logic and controlling professionals : the case of the public sector / Jane Broadbent and Richard Laughlin -- Leading professionals : towards new concepts of professionalism / Robin Middlehurst and Tom Kennie -- Professinalism and medicine -- Rosalind Eve and Paul Hodgkin -- Regenerating professionalism within the academic workplace / Jon Nixon -- Professional disintegration? : the case of law / Gerard Hanlon and Joanna Shapland -- A shifting professionalism : an examination of accountancy / Gerard Hanlon -- Professionalism and politics : towards a new mentality? / David Marquand.