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• catalog abstract ""There is recurrent public concern with enhancing the quality of professional performance. What is the contemporary understanding of professionalism? Are the needs of professionals in various fields being met in today's world, as what is commonly called "continuing professional development" has become a sizable industry? Many books treat the professions as a homogeneous group and view them from an external standpoint. In Professional Practices, Tony Becher investigates the differences as well as the similarities between and within professional groupings, and presents the perspectives of insiders. One particular theme concerns the main patterns of change in professional careers and the specific problems faced by women professionals in a largely male-dominated environment. Brilliantly written, the book focuses on six professions--medicine, pharmacy, law, accountancy, architecture, and structural engineering. The material is based on 190 interviews with a variety of members of the six professions. Becher's book offers original and sensitive insight into the working lives of practitioners and an understanding of the ideas and values they embrace. He argues that their high sense of commitment stems from a concern to enhance their individual reputations and to maintain their collective professional status. Becher highlights the variety of activities in which these professionals are engaged and the reasons for their responses to social and political pressures from outside their fields. Above all, he seeks to demystify professionalism and to show that professional people share with others a wide range of universal human feelings and concerns. A postscript raises the issue of why universities are little involved with continuing education in the professions. Practicing professionals will benefit from this insight into how people in their own and other professions cope with similar problems. Becher's volume will be particularly appealing to educationists, policymakers, and social scientists interested in the subject of professionalism, those involved in the provision of initial and mid-career change for the professions, and those with a lay interest in the topic."--Jacket. One particular theme concerns the main patterns of change in professional careers and the specific problems faced by women professionals in a largely male-dominated environment."--BOOK JACKET. "Practicing professionals will benefit from this insight into how people in their own and other professions cope with similar problems. Becher's volume will be particularly appealing to educationists, policymakers, and social scientists interested in the subject of professionalism, those involved in the provision of initial and mid career change for the professions, and those with a lay interest in the topic."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11242683.
• catalog created "c1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "c1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
• catalog description ""There is recurrent public concern with enhancing the quality of professional performance. What is the contemporary understanding of professionalism? Are the needs of professionals in various fields being met in today's world, as what is commonly called "continuing professional development" has become a sizable industry? Many books treat the professions as a homogeneous group and view them from an external standpoint. In Professional Practices, Tony Becher investigates the differences as well as the similarities between and within professional groupings, and presents the perspectives of insiders. One particular theme concerns the main patterns of change in professional careers and the specific problems faced by women professionals in a largely male-dominated environment. Brilliantly written, the book focuses on six professions--medicine, pharmacy, law, accountancy, architecture, and structural engineering. ".
• catalog description "8. Questions of quality ; Accountability and quality maintenance ; Rotten apples and whistle blowing ; Modes of procedure ; Organizationally based quality assurance ; Individually based quality assurance ; Organizationally based quality control ; Individually based quality control ; Quality and professional life -- pt. 5. Retrospect. 9. Conclusion ; The rationale in retrospect ; Variations and similarities ; Some potential implications -- Postscript: The role of the universities.".
• catalog description "Becher's volume will be particularly appealing to educationists, policymakers, and social scientists interested in the subject of professionalism, those involved in the provision of initial and mid-career change for the professions, and those with a lay interest in the topic."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-274) and index.".
• catalog description "One particular theme concerns the main patterns of change in professional careers and the specific problems faced by women professionals in a largely male-dominated environment."--BOOK JACKET. "Practicing professionals will benefit from this insight into how people in their own and other professions cope with similar problems. Becher's volume will be particularly appealing to educationists, policymakers, and social scientists interested in the subject of professionalism, those involved in the provision of initial and mid career change for the professions, and those with a lay interest in the topic."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "The material is based on 190 interviews with a variety of members of the six professions. Becher's book offers original and sensitive insight into the working lives of practitioners and an understanding of the ideas and values they embrace. He argues that their high sense of commitment stems from a concern to enhance their individual reputations and to maintain their collective professional status. Becher highlights the variety of activities in which these professionals are engaged and the reasons for their responses to social and political pressures from outside their fields. Above all, he seeks to demystify professionalism and to show that professional people share with others a wide range of universal human feelings and concerns. A postscript raises the issue of why universities are little involved with continuing education in the professions. Practicing professionals will benefit from this insight into how people in their own and other professions cope with similar problems. ".
• catalog description "pt. 1. Prospect. 1. Introduction ; What this book is about ; Who the book is for ; Previous accounts of professions ; The specifics of the present study ; The method of inquiry ; The limitations of the approach ; Classifying and characterizing the professions ; The conventions adopted ; 2. The six professions ; A short prospectus ; Medicine ; Pharmacy ; Law ; Accountancy ; Architecture ; Structural engineering ; Relations between the professions ; Professional bodies and commercial agencies -- pt. 2. Change. 3. Pressures for change ; The sources of change ; The effects of legislation and national policy ; Economic pressures ; Internationalism ; Client attitudes ; The business ethos ; The rise of managerialism ; Knowledge development ; The emergence of specialisms ; The impact of information technology ; The cumulation of change -- ".
• catalog description "pt. 3. Commitment. 4. Professional careers ; Career patterns ; The great and the small ; Recruitment and initial training ; Specialization and advanced qualifications ; The later career stages ; Career benefits and disbenefits ; Ending a career -- 5. Women professionals ; Structural issues ; Forms of gender discrimination ; The demands of domesticity ; The channeling of careers ; Social deprivations ; Attitudes and feelings ; The picture in perspective -- pt. 4. Capability. 6. Continuing professional development ; Definitions, origins, and purposes ; Formal requirements and the related debate ; Providing and implementing CPD ; Practitioners' attitudes and motivation ; Aspects of course provision ; Contextual courses ; The margins of formality --7. Informal learning ; Some basic considerations ; Resource-based activities ; Practice-based activities ; Practice-related activities ; Interpersonal activities ; Characteristics of informal learning -- ".
• catalog extent "xiii, 281 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1560004142 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "c1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers,".
• catalog subject "331.7/12 21".
• catalog subject "Career Choice.".
• catalog subject "Commerce trends.".
• catalog subject "Education, Professional.".
• catalog subject "Ethics, Professional.".
• catalog subject "HD8038.A1 B43 1999".
• catalog subject "Professional Competence.".
• catalog subject "Professional Practice trends.".
• catalog subject "Professional employees.".
• catalog subject "Professions.".
• catalog tableOfContents "8. Questions of quality ; Accountability and quality maintenance ; Rotten apples and whistle blowing ; Modes of procedure ; Organizationally based quality assurance ; Individually based quality assurance ; Organizationally based quality control ; Individually based quality control ; Quality and professional life -- pt. 5. Retrospect. 9. Conclusion ; The rationale in retrospect ; Variations and similarities ; Some potential implications -- Postscript: The role of the universities.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Prospect. 1. Introduction ; What this book is about ; Who the book is for ; Previous accounts of professions ; The specifics of the present study ; The method of inquiry ; The limitations of the approach ; Classifying and characterizing the professions ; The conventions adopted ; 2. The six professions ; A short prospectus ; Medicine ; Pharmacy ; Law ; Accountancy ; Architecture ; Structural engineering ; Relations between the professions ; Professional bodies and commercial agencies -- pt. 2. Change. 3. Pressures for change ; The sources of change ; The effects of legislation and national policy ; Economic pressures ; Internationalism ; Client attitudes ; The business ethos ; The rise of managerialism ; Knowledge development ; The emergence of specialisms ; The impact of information technology ; The cumulation of change -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 3. Commitment. 4. Professional careers ; Career patterns ; The great and the small ; Recruitment and initial training ; Specialization and advanced qualifications ; The later career stages ; Career benefits and disbenefits ; Ending a career -- 5. Women professionals ; Structural issues ; Forms of gender discrimination ; The demands of domesticity ; The channeling of careers ; Social deprivations ; Attitudes and feelings ; The picture in perspective -- pt. 4. Capability. 6. Continuing professional development ; Definitions, origins, and purposes ; Formal requirements and the related debate ; Providing and implementing CPD ; Practitioners' attitudes and motivation ; Aspects of course provision ; Contextual courses ; The margins of formality --7. Informal learning ; Some basic considerations ; Resource-based activities ; Practice-based activities ; Practice-related activities ; Interpersonal activities ; Characteristics of informal learning -- ".
• catalog title "Professional practices : commitment and capability in a changing environment / Tony Becher.".
• catalog type "text".