Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: Professions A Key Idea For Business And Society
Author(s): Saks Mike (University Of Suffolk Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138610415
Pages: 216 Pages, 10 Tables, Black And White
Publication Date: 4/20/2021
Series: Key Ideas in Business and Management
Category: Organizational Theory & Behaviour