The management of expertise
By: edited by Harry Scarbrough.
Contributors: Scarbrough, Harry, 1955-
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Personnel management.; Professional employees.; Organizational learning -- Management.
Description: The spread of information technology and the globalisation of market forces have a paradoxical effect on knowledge-work and expertise. The expert groups who embody these competences are increasingly vital to competitiveness and innovation. Yet, for that very reason, they have also become a critical target of management discipline and control.

With the traditional ivory-tower habitats of professionalism under attack, the battle-lines between managers and expert groups stretch across a wide swathe of the public and private sectors of the economy. This book addresses this clashing of business and professional values, and also the underlying shifts in knowledge-production which have made expertise, not professionalism, the defining problem and solution of the current era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.