The Logic of Professionalism: Work and Management in Professional Service Organizations

Description

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 at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University.

"It is not often that you read a text that so emphatically puts the professional work at the center...It is extremely relevant reading for anyone interested in professions and professional work." Swedish Business Economics Journal