Professions:
Saks, Mike
Professions: a key idea for business and society - London Routledge 2021 - vii, 208 p.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The concept of professions
2. The History of Professions and Professionalisation
3. Positive and Negative Theories of Professions
4. Attacks on Professions: Professional Deconstruction?
5. Business and Management Issues and the Professions
6. Conclusion: The Future of Professions
Book Description
Professions and professionalism have played an integral part in business and society. In this book, Mike Saks provides a thorough overview of this field through an analysis of a range of professions, including, amongst others, accountants, doctors and lawyers.
The book offers a critical analysis of such privileged occupational groups in modern societies. Anticipating a positive if changing role for such groups in the years ahead, the book outlines conflicting theoretical perspectives on professions and discusses current developments in an accessible, multi-disciplinary style. The book documents their evolution and contemporary transformation from medieval guilds to fully-fledged professions and international professional service firms, while pointing a path towards their future in the world of work and beyond.
With insights into the recent challenges provided by clients, citizens, the state and corporations in neo-liberal societies, Professions provides a concise overview that will be essential reading for students, academics and others interested in the operation of these key occupational groups in business and society.
9781138610415
Professions--Sociological aspects
331.71 / SAK
Professions: a key idea for business and society - London Routledge 2021 - vii, 208 p.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The concept of professions
2. The History of Professions and Professionalisation
3. Positive and Negative Theories of Professions
4. Attacks on Professions: Professional Deconstruction?
5. Business and Management Issues and the Professions
6. Conclusion: The Future of Professions
Book Description
Professions and professionalism have played an integral part in business and society. In this book, Mike Saks provides a thorough overview of this field through an analysis of a range of professions, including, amongst others, accountants, doctors and lawyers.
The book offers a critical analysis of such privileged occupational groups in modern societies. Anticipating a positive if changing role for such groups in the years ahead, the book outlines conflicting theoretical perspectives on professions and discusses current developments in an accessible, multi-disciplinary style. The book documents their evolution and contemporary transformation from medieval guilds to fully-fledged professions and international professional service firms, while pointing a path towards their future in the world of work and beyond.
With insights into the recent challenges provided by clients, citizens, the state and corporations in neo-liberal societies, Professions provides a concise overview that will be essential reading for students, academics and others interested in the operation of these key occupational groups in business and society.
9781138610415
Professions--Sociological aspects
331.71 / SAK