Professional Occupations and Organizations (Elements in Organization Theory)
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- Synopsis
- In this Element, we engage with fundamental questions concerning the future trajectory of professions as a distinct occupational category and of the formal organizations, which represent, employ or host professionals. We begin with a literature review that identifies a functionalist, power and institutionalist lens for the study of professional occupations and organizations. We then review a series of challenges which face the contemporary professions. Finally, we explore contemporary developments in the worlds of professions applying three units of analysis: macro (professional occupations and their associations), meso (professional organizations) and micro (professional workers).
- Copyright:
- 2019
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108803410
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781108789851, 9781108789851
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 02/11/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Daniel Muzio, Sundeep Aulakh and Ian Kirkpatrick
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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