Public Professions & Professionalism

A Routledge Research Handbook
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-138-82516-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Although there are a growing number of books on professions and professionalism, they are either thematically specialized, or limited to specific sectors. In this book, prominent international scholars explore and debate the critical themes and changing nature of public professionalism, and challenge the assumptions which have previously limited the analysis of the field.

Unlike existing work in the field, this unique collection brings diverse disciplinary perspectives together, connecting fields and networks across public administration, public management, and organizational sociology and goes beyond the traditional dichotomous perspectives,emphasizing the hybridization and reconfiguration of occupational/professional/organizational logics. Where traditional research approaches have tended to divide between the theoretical and the practical, either taking highly specific focus on single sectors, or abstract overviews which ignored practical application, this book strikes a new balance. Above all, it proposes future directions for both practical organizational issues and academic research.

By challenging mainstream assumptions and approaches, this comprehensive handbook provides a unique and significant assessment of public professional work, management and organization in contemporary society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noordegraaf, Mirko

Waring, Justin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

1.Introduction: Public professional work, Mirko Noordegraaf (NL) & Justin Waring (UK); 2. The changing nature of public professionalism, Ian Kirkpatrick (UK), Mirko Noordegraaf (NL) & Justin Waring (UK) PART I. PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC PROFESSIONALISM 3. Past and present; Reflections on public professionalism, Stephen Ackroyd (UK) 4.Public professionalism as competing logics, Trish Reay (CAN) 5. Critical perspectives on public professionalism, Susan Pickard (UK) PART II. PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL FIELDS 6. Governing and regulating professional fields, Mike Saks (UK) 7. Professions in changing welfare states, Viola Bureau (DK) & Sirpa Wrede (FIN) 8. Public professionalism and expertise in a globalizing world, Leonard Seabrooke (DK) PART III. PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 9. Transnational public professional service firms, Daniel Muzio (UK) & James Faulconbridge (UK) 10. Hybrid connections between professional work and organizations, Mike Dent (UK), Ian Kirkpatrick (UK) & Federico Lega (IT) 11. Making public professional services more flexible, John Purcell (UK) & Paul Boselie (NL) PART IV. PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL WORK 12. Public professional services and clients, John Alford (AUS) 13. Professional standards and accountability in public services, Stefan Timmermans (USA) 14. Team work in public service delivery, Rachael Finn (UK) & Graham Martin (UK) 15. Public professional work and technology, David Blumenthal (USA) 16. Motivation of public professionals, Gene Brewer (USA), Wouter Vandenabbeele (BEL) & Nina van Loon (NL) PART V. PUBLIC PROFESSIONALS 17. Professional competencies in public domains, Olle ten Cate (NL) 18. Careers of public professionals, Laurie Cohen (UK) 19. Public professional knowledge and expertise, Graeme Currie (UK) & Justin Waring (UK) 20. Professional identities and publicness, Justing Waring (UK) & Simon Bishop (UK) or Ruth McDonald (UK) 21. Schooling of public professionals, Lennart Svensson (SW) PART VI. MANAGING PUBLIC PROFESSIONALS 22. Professional leadership and management in public domains, Paul Adler (USA) 23. Innovations in public professional services, Louise Fitzgerald (UK) & Gerry McGivern (UK) 24. Professionals and public policy, Michael Hill (UK) & Peter Hupe (NL) PART VII. CONTEXTS OF PROFESSIONAL WORK 25. Professionalism in health care, Ruth McDonald (UK) or Ellen Kuhlmann (GER) 26. Professionalism in welfare, Evelien Tonkens (NL 27. Professionalism in (higher) education, Richard Winter (AUS) or Linda Evans (UK) 28. Professionalism in the USA and Europe, Julia Evetts (UK) PART VIII. CONCLUSION 29. Public professionalism as connective professionalism, Mirko Noordegraaf 30. Reframing public professionalism; Conclusions and implications, Mirko Noordegraaf & Justin Waring

Über Autor(innen)

Mirko Noordegraaf is a full Professor of Public Management at the Utrecht School of Governance (USG), Utrecht University,NL. He studies public management and public professionalism, with particular emphasis on the hybridization and reconfiguration of professionalism in domains like health care, welfare, law, policing, and education. He is chair of the executive board of USG and chair of the research group Public governance and management within USG. He has published inter alia in Public Administration, Administration & Society, Organization Studies, Public Management Review.

Justin Waring is a Professor of Organizational Sociology at Nottingham University Business School. He focuses on public policy and management, sociology of professions and medical sociology, with particular emphasis on the renewal of public service organizations and the management of professional work, especially in health care settings. He has published inter alia in Social Science & Medicine, Public Administration Review, Health Policy, BMJ, Organization Studies, Public Administration, Health Policy.