Professional Occupations and Organizations

Download or read book Professional Occupations and Organizations written by Daniel Muzio and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element engages with fundamental questions concerning the future trajectory of professions as a distinct occupational category and of the formal organizations, which represent, employ or host professionals. It begins with a literature review that identifies a functionalist, power and institutionalist lens for the study of professional occupations and organizations. It then reviews a series of challenges which face the contemporary professions. Finally, the Element explores contemporary developments in the worlds of professions applying three units of analysis: macro (professional occupations and their associations), meso (professional organizations) and micro (professional workers).