Professions at Bay.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Part I - Introduction -- 1 The challenge to professions -- Part II - Independent Professions -- 2 The governance of law: the structure and work of corporate lawyers -- 3 Understanding consultancy as performance: the dramaturgical metaphor -- 4 The doctor-patient relationship: an essay on the theory of the professions -- Part III - Public Sector Professions -- 5 Public professionals or public servants? Making sense of UK local government professional bodies' codes of ethics -- 6 Victorian values in Victorian buildings? The museums profession and management -- 7 Footing the bill: professionalisation and the police service -- Part IV - Organizational Professions -- 8 Restructuring and repositioning of the UK engineering profession -- 9 Marketing: the limits of professionalism -- 10 Future imperfect? The uncertain prospects of the British accountant -- 11 Politics and professionalism: pursuing managerialism in personnel -- 12 The undisclosed bankers -- 13 Managing IT professionals: a crisis in management control? -- 14 The triumph of hierarchies over markets: information systems specialists in the current context -- Part V - Discussion -- 15 Fragmentation, cooperation and continuity: towards a flexible technocratic synthesis? -- Index.

First published in 2000. This collection of works explores the sources of conflict and change which affect professional occupations, the responses of these occupations to such forces and the possible or likely outcomes of these actions and reactions for the character of British management.

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