Professions

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Professions

• Theoretical knowledge is key
• Occupations strongly motivated to
  professionalize

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Professions

• Characteristics of Professions
• Theoretical knowledge
• Professional culture

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Characteristics cont.

• Professional authority
• Control of the labor market

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Characteristics cont.

• Ethics and altruism

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Professions

• Growth Areas
• Para-professions

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Professions

• Challenges
• Client knowledge
• Competition with other professions

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Managers

• What do managers do?

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Managers
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Managers

• Executives highest officials of organizations
• Ultimately responsible for achieving
  organizational goals
• Delegate responsibility

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Managers

• Managers (middle mgt)
• Implement policies to achieve goals
• organizational man/woman

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Managers

• Supervisors
• foreman (like inside contractors)
• reduced role because of unions, work groups

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Managers

• Many roles (all involving power)
• Informational
• Decisional -- decisions, negotiate deals, handle
  disturbances

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Managers

• Problematic, stressful aspects of occupation
• 1) Role overload
• 4) Role ambiguity
• 5) Job security

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Clerical Occupations

• 1)
• 2) Feminization
• 3)
• Deterioration in status

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Sustained Growth

• more written records production, sales, planning

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Feminization

• past higher skill
• convergence of demand and supply
• feminization clerical worker as maid, mother,
  wife

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Mechanization

• craft
• machine operation
• assembly line
• full automation computerized operations and
  elimination of clerk?

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Reduced Status

• narrowing of job
• overtaken in pay by unionized blue-collar workers

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Ambiguous Status

• neither mgt. nor worker
• limited mobility
• some unionization