The Roots of Professionalism Flashcards

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Professionalism is more than just about qualitifications, knowledge, and skill; but is also about …

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integrity, ethics, and trust

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It possesses a set of values, behaviors, and broader responsibilities in how the professional’s knowledge and skills are applied.

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Professionalism

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According to initial British and American analyses, professionalism was determined to be an occupational value for stability and ordinance of social systems.

Professional relations (PR) were cooperative and mutually supportive in this interpretation. Relations of trust represented the employee-client and employee-management interactions as competence were presumed as a guarantee through education, training, and licensing

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First Interpretation

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During the 1970s-1980s, professionalism was dismissed as a successful principle and professionalization as a process of authority over occupation of a market.

According to this interpretation, professionalization promotes a professional’s occupational self-interest in salary and power.

It was a process initiated and contolled by employees through professional institutions and associations to promote and protect their self-interests.

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Second Interpretation

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It involved the analysis of professionalism as a discourse of occupational change and control, especially in organizations wherein it was increasingly applied and utilized by managers.

There is an important different between the discourse of professionalism as built “from within”. It can also be from occupational group itself and as-built “from above” or by managers in work organization.

When discourse is built from within, the benefits to the group can be significant. The occupational group uses the discourse to build its occupational identity, promote its image with clients and customers, and secure and promote the occupational control of work by employees.

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Third Interpretation

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