The Logic of Professionalism

Work and Management in Professional Service Organizations

The Logic of Professionalism
Johan Alvehus
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Paperback
h240 x 172mm - 200pg
8 Dec 2021 UK
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9781529206074
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This book explores common management practices as they relate to professional service organisations. Adopting a unique critical institutional view, it focuses on challenges and struggles in both public and private settings and offers new insights. This will be essential reading for scholars of management and leadership. Alvehus opens important discussions on what it means to work, manage and be managed in such professional organisations, casting light on classic conflicts. He takes everyday work as a starting point and adopts a critical view that focuses on challenges and struggles in both public and private settings. He offers new perspectives and key insights for the future of professionalism. Providing a comprehensive overview of the field, this book is an important guide for understanding how professionalism is maintained in today' s organizations. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of management and leadership.
Johan Alvehus is Associate Professor in the Department of Service Management and Service Studies at Lund University.

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