Managing professional identities : knowledge, performativity and the new professional / edited by Mike Dent and Stephen Whitehead.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dent, Mike, 1944-

Whitehead, Stephen.

Series:

Routledge studies in business organization and networks ; 19.

Routledge studies in business organizations and networks ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Professional employees.

Professional ethics.

Personnel management.

Knowledge management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses the nature of current shifts in professional and managerial knowledge and practice, particularly in relation to power and accountability. Connecting with current debates concerned with work and identity, the book will present a range of theoretical and empirical accounts of the dilemmas and issues facing specialists in various organizational arenas as they seek to adapt to the challenges of organizational and cultural transformation. Contributions offer innovative and sophisticated theoretical engagements which draw upon various perspectives, including those of post-structu

Contents:

Cover; Managing Professional Identities: Knowledge, performativity and the 'new' professional; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Configuring the 'new' professional; Part I The professional under scrutiny; 2 Trusting the professional: A managerial discourse for uncertain times; 3 Aspects of the 'Audit Society': Issues arising from the colonization of professional academic identities by a 'portable management tool'; 4 Medical professional autonomy in an era of accountability and regulation: Voices of doctors under siege; 5 Managing the 'professional' man

Part II Performing and negotiating professional identity6 Speaking professionally: Occupational anxiety and discursive ingenuity among human resourcing specialists; 7 Amateurism, quackery and professional conduct: The constitution of 'proper' aromatherapy practice; 8 'The romance of lonely dissent': Intellectuals, professionals and the McUniversity; 9 Gender strategies of women professionals: The case of the US Navy; 10 Omega's story: The heterogeneous engineering of a gendered professional self; Part III Maps and knowledges for the 'new' professional

11 'New age' religion and identity at work12 Writing professional identities: (In)between structure and agency; 13 Life on the verandah: Colonial cartographies of professional identities; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-73615-0

9786612778612

1-134-73616-9

1-282-77861-7

0-203-46709-4

9780203467091

OCLC:

304116075