The End of the Professions?: The Restructuring of Professional Work

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROFESSIONS......Page 14
DEVELOPING THE NOTION OF PROFESSIONALISM......Page 17
OUTLINE OF THE VOLUME......Page 21
REFERENCES......Page 23
INTRODUCTION......Page 24
ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO PROFESSIONALISM......Page 25
PRINCIPAL-AGENT PROBLEMS AND THE NATUREOF INFORMATION......Page 28
SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TOPROFESSIONALISM......Page 32
BEYOND THE ECONOMICS OF PROFESSIONS......Page 34
CONCLUSION......Page 38
NOTES......Page 39
REFERENCES......Page 40
CHANGEINTHE PUBLIC SECTOR:ANOVERVIEWAND A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS......Page 44
THE NATURE OF ‘ACCOUNTING LOGIC’ ANDACCOUNTING......Page 47
THE NATURE OF PROFESSIONS......Page 49
CHANGEINTHE PUBLIC SECTOR:CONTROLLINGTHE PROFESSIONAL......Page 50
Education......Page 51
General Medical Practice......Page 53
IMPLICATIONS......Page 54
REFERENCES......Page 57
THE GROWTH OF ‘PROFESSIONALS’......Page 60
CONCEPTS OF PROFESSIONALISM......Page 61
THE PROFESSIONALINTHE PUBLIC SECTOR: THECASE OF ACADEMIC PRACTICE......Page 63
CHANGES AFFECTING PRIVATE SECTORPROFESSIONAL PRACTICES AND PROFESSIONALSERVICE ORGANISATIONS......Page 64
CHANGESINTHE PUBLIC SECTOR: THE CASE OFTHE HIGHER EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT......Page 66
Impact on prof essionalism and prof essional activities......Page 68
Organisational impact......Page 69
Leadership and change......Page 71
Leadership and the expectations of professionals......Page 72
Distributed leadership......Page 73
Benefits of professionalism......Page 74
The role of leadership and management......Page 75
REFERENCES......Page 77
INTRODUCTION......Page 78
CURRENT CHALLENGES TO MEDICINE......Page 79
Soaring costs and technological advance......Page 80
Creation of an internal market in health care......Page 81
Consumerism, litigation and accountability......Page 84
RESPONSES......Page 85
Evidence Based Medicine......Page 86
Financial incentives for doctors......Page 87
CULTURAL CHANGES......Page 90
SOME WAYS FORWARD......Page 91
REFERENCES......Page 93
DEFINING MOMENT OR LOST OPPORTUNITY?......Page 96
The changing student body......Page 98
Changing conditions of academic work......Page 99
A divided profession?......Page 100
A new proletariat?......Page 101
APROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON LEARNING......Page 102
The centrality of learning: the nature and purposes of learning......Page 104
Collegiality as an organisational principle: the institutionalconditions of learning......Page 107
IMPLICATIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION......Page 109
REFERENCES......Page 111
THE LEGAL PROFESSIONS AND THE MARKET FORLEGAL WORK......Page 114
THE LEGAL PROFESSIONS IN THE 1990s......Page 115
Firm size and the producer-consumer relationship......Page 117
Areas of work and firm size......Page 120
A standardised versus individualised service—Images of thefuture?......Page 121
THE FUTURE: PROFESSIONALISM, LAW, ANDSOCIETY......Page 126
THE LEGAL PROFESSIONINTHE CONTEXT OFOTHER PROFESSIONS: IS THE END NIGH?......Page 127
REFERENCES......Page 129
INTRODUCTION......Page 132
FIRM SIZE AND THE PRODUCER-CONSUMERRELATIONSHIP......Page 133
A SHIFTING MARKET FOR ACCOUNTANCYSERVICES......Page 135
REDEFINING WHO THE CLIENT FOR THE AUDIT IS......Page 137
PRESTIGE AND ACCOUNTANCY SPECIALISMS......Page 138
CHANGING NATURE OF ORGANISATIONALCONTROL WITHIN THE BIG SIX......Page 139
ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING ANDCOMMERCIALISED PROFESSIONALISM......Page 142
REFERENCES......Page 146
INTRODUCTION......Page 150
PROFESSIONALISM AND THENEWMENTALITY......Page 151
TRUSTING THE PROFESSIONAL ETHIC?......Page 154
REFERENCES......Page 156
INDEX......Page 158