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9781859720301

Professions at Bay: Control and Encouragement of Ingenuity in British Management

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  • ISBN13:

    9781859720301

  • ISBN10:

    1859720307

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-02-01
  • Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $150.00

Table of Contents

Figures and tables
vii
List of contributors
ix
Acknowledgements xii
List of abbreviations
xiii
Part I -- Introduction 1(42)
The challenge to professions
3(40)
Ian Glover
Michael Hughes
Part II -- Independent Professions 43(62)
The governance of law: the structure and work of corporate lawyers
45(22)
John Flood
Understanding consultancy as performance: the dramaturgical metaphor
67(20)
Timothy Clark
Graeme Salaman
The doctor-patient relationship: an essay on the theory of the professions
87(18)
Michael Kelly
Ian Glover
Part III -- Public Sector Professions 105(60)
Public professionals or public servants? Making sense of UK local government professional bodies' codes of ethics
107(20)
Charles Booth
Victorian values in Victorian buildings? The museums profession and management
127(24)
Stuart Davies
Footing the bill: professionalisation and the police service
151(14)
Jane Goodsir
Part IV -- Organizational Professions 165(140)
Restructuring and repositioning of the UK engineering profession
167(16)
Tony Millman
Marketing: the limits of professionalism
183(12)
Don Bathie
Future imperfect? The uncertain prospects of the British accountant
195(20)
Robin Roslender
Ian Glover
Michael Kelly
Politics and professionlism: pursuing managerialism in personnel
215(18)
Barbara Paterson
The undisclosed bankers
233(16)
Mark Hughes
Managing IT professionals: a crisis in management control?
249(18)
Wendy Currie
Colin Bryson
The triumph of hierarchies over markets: information systems specialists in the current context
267(38)
Stephen Ackroyd
Ian Glover
Wendy Currie
Stephen Bull
Part V -- Discussion 305(30)
Fragmentation, cooperation and continuity: towards a flexible technocratic synthesis?
307(28)
Ian Glover
Michael Hughes
Index 335

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