Professionals Making Judgments

The Professional Skill of Valuing and Assessing
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-47501-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

Professionals Making Judgments examines the role of judgment in professional work. The book makes the argument that too many studies of professionalism put emphasis on rational decision making. The more theoretical parts of the book are complemented by empirical studies of three distinct domains of professional practice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Styhre, A.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensforschung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Entscheidungsfindung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures Preface Introduction: On judgment PART I: THEORY 1. Three Perspectives on Professional Judgment 2. Organizing for Professional Judgment: Bureaucracies and Heterarchies PART II: EMPIRICAL CASES 3. Perceptual-epistemological Judgment: Embryologists Examining Life 4. Aesthetic-emotional Judgment: Ministers, Faith-based Work, and the Church of Sweden 5. Economic Judgment: The Regional Culture Agency and the Governance of Culture Budgets PART III: ANALYSIS 6. Professionals Making Judgment: Some Issues and Contributions Appendix: Methodology of the Studies Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Styhre is Chair of Organization Theory and Management, School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Styhre has published extensively in organization and management studies and is the author of several research monographs and textbooks including Visual Culture in Organizations (Routledge, 2010), Venturing into the Bioeconomy (co-authored with Mats Sundgren, Palgrave 2011), and Organizations and the Bioeconomy (Routledge, 2012).