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With a growing emphasis on service excellence, cultural diversity, and corporate compliance, health care employees increasingly seek workers with a strong work ethic and well honed "soft skills" - people who communicate appropriately, work well on teams, respect and value differences, use limited resources efficiently, and interact effectively with coworkers, patients and guests. This resource meets the challenge and describes the professional standards that apply to all healthcare workers. Information on the new HIPAA guidelines. Content on resume writing and job interviewing. Details the importance of professionalism; personal skills such as appearance, time management, problem solving and critical thinking; and personal and professional growth and advancement. All health professionals and students.
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Work and Integrity is a timely resource that examines the crisis as well as the promise of professionalism in contemporary society. This vital book argues for the importance of a new civic professionalism that reflects the ideals of democracy and public service in our ever more complex economic environment. A publication of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Work and Integrity explores the most current thinking on the various (and often conflicting) ways in which the concept of professional work is understood. Using examples from the United States and Europe, the author describes how the professions evolved from a limited kind of genteel occupation into one of the most widely emulated and sought-after models of work. The book also explores the rise of complex institutions of industrial and postindustrial society, especially the university and the bureaucratic structures of business, government, health care, and education.
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Patients who are confident of physicians' intellectual and technical abilities are sometimes not convinced of their professional behavior. Systemic and anecdotal cases of physician misconduct, conflict of interest, and self-interest abound. Many have even come to mistrust physicians as patient advocates. How can patients trust the intellectual and technical aspects of medical care, but not the professional? In order to enhance and promote professionalism in medicine, one should expect it, encourage it, and evaluate it. By measuring their own professional behavior, physicians can provide the kind of transparency with which they can regain the trust of patients and society. Not only patients, but also institutions which accredit organizations have demanded accountability of physicians in their professional behavior. While there has been much lament and a few strong proposals for improving professionalism, no single reliable and valid measure of the success of these proposals exists. This book is a theory-to-practice text focused on ways to evaluate professional behavior written by leaders in the field of medical education and assessment.
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Introduction to Engineering Ethics provides the background for discussion of the basic issues in engineering ethics. Emphasis is given to the moral problems engineers face in the corporate setting. It places those issues within a philosophical framework, and it seems to exhibit both their social importance and their intellectual challenge. The primary goal is to stimulate critical and responsible reflection on moral issues surrounding engineering practice and to provide the conceptual tools necessary for pursuing those issues.
As per new ABET 2000 guidelines, more and more introductory engineering courses cover engineering ethics as part of their instruction. Students preparing to function within the engineering profession need to be introduced to the basic issues in engineering ethics. This book places those issues within a wider philosophical framework than has been customary in the past and aims to stimulate critical and responsible reflection on the moral issues surrounding engineering practice and to provide the conceptual tools necessary for pursuing those issues.
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In industrialized societies, professionals have long been valued and set apart from other workers because of their specialized knowledge and skill. But has their role in these societies declined? Of what significance are they today?
In this concise synthesis of the major debates about the professions since World War II, Eliot Freidson explores several broad questions about professionalism today—what it is, what its future is likely to be, and its value to public policy. Freidson argues that because professionalism is based on specialized knowledge, it is distinct from either bureaucratic or market-based forms of work. He predicts a rebirth of the professions during which practitioners lose some of their independence and become more accountable to standards of a professional elite. And, defending professionalism as a desirable method of providing complex, discretionary services to the public, Freidson argues that market-based or bureaucratic methods would impoverish the quality of service to consumers, and suggests ways the virtues of professionalism can be reinforced.
The most accessible survey available of almost fifty years of theory and research by the scholar whose own work helped define the field, this book will appeal to the growing international body of scholars concerned with studying and theorizing about the professions.
Customer Reviews:
Not interesting.......2006-02-27
This book takes a theoretical essay approach to professionalism in its attempt to mesh personal opinions with an array of information and citations that cover about half the book. The rest is a crude attempt to tie it all together; the result - the least comprehendible book I've ever had the dipleasure to read.
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This new work explores the meaning and implications of professionalism as a form of social organization. Eliot Freidson formalizes professionalism by treating it as an ideal type grounded in the political economy; he presents the concept as a third logic, or a more viable alternative to consumerism and bureaucracy. He asks us to imagine a world where workers with specialized knowledge and the ability to provide society with especially important services can organize and control their own work, without directives from management or the influence of free markets.
Freidson then appraises the present status of professionalism, exploring how traditional and national variations in state policy and organization are influencing the power and practice of such professions as medicine and law. Widespread attacks by neoclassical economists and populists, he contends, are obscuring the social value of credentialism and monopolies. The institutions that sustain professionalism in our world are simply too useful to both capital and state to dismiss.
Customer Reviews:
Mischaracterizes the position of professionalism in modern society.......2006-01-29
Following the Weberian tradition, Freidson contrasts the professions with the competitive market and the bureaucratic institution as ideal types. This is an interesting task and should take about twenty pages, not a whole book. The interesting observation, however, is that in modern economies, the three are not alternatives, but rather are complementary. For instance, physicians (professionals) work in hospitals (bureaucracies) whose success depends on attracting patients (the competitive market). The interesting question, not addressed in this book, is the conditions under which professionalism can be maintained and expanded, even in the context of markets and competitive bureaucratic institutions. Answering this question requires using sophisticated analytical tools from economic theory (e.g., game theory and principal agent models) as well as anthropological skills used in investigating the characteristics of professional activities. Friedson is capable of neither.
A short article would have sufficed.......2002-08-15
I cannot speak fairly of the rest of Friedson's work, so perhaps this book is received differently by those who are familiar with his oeuvre. That being said, there is nothing in this book that justifies its length. Its subject matter could have been soundly dealt with in an article-length piece.
Friedson's ambition is to establish a presence in the scholarly field for the study of ideotypical Professionalism (as practice, ethos, and so on) alongside free-market economic organization and bureaucratic organization. He compares and contrasts differenct aspects of each, focusing on labor markets, careers, claims to bodies of knowledge, and contemporary contests. The analysis attempts to be comprehensive, but sacrifices specificity as well as liveliness in that respect. Not only is Friedson limited by his ambiguous use of the Weberian methodological ideal type (you get the feeling he is switching back and forth, but you can't quite place when), his lack of sharp insights makes this something of a dull read.
Perhaps, again, this is an unfair judgment, as I have not read the rest of his work. But for me, it seemed a shame that a book with such bold ambitions, even standing on the shoulders of a giant like Weber, could only come up with a handful of mediocre insights. The next generation of sociologists studying the professions will, I hope, be able to incorporate more contemporary theories and data and give us the analyses and perspectives that this book could and should have.
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The topic of professionalism has dominated the content of major academic medicine publications (e.g. Journal of the American Medical Association, New England Journal of Medicine, Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Lancet) during the past decade and continues to do so. The message of this current wave of professionalism is that medical educators need to be more attentive to the moral sensibilities of trainees, to their interpersonal and affective dimensions, and to their social conscience, all to the end of skilled, humanistic physicians. Urgent calls to address professionalism from such groups as the Association of American Medical Colleges (representing the nation's 126 accredited medical schools and nearly 400 major teaching hospitals), the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, among others. In fact, at the 2004 annual meeting of the AAMC six separate presentations addressed professionalism with such titles as "Evaluating Humanism and Professionalism," Professionalism: Expectation, Education, Evaluation," or "Toward Assessing Professional Behaviors of Medical Students through Peer Observations" (note the preoccupation with assessment).
Professionalism, then, has become part of the current academic medicine parlance, used by administrators, clinical faculty, residency programs, and professional organizations with an expectation of shared meanings and goals. All of these stakeholders focus on what has become a consistent list of attributes deemed to be the essence of professionalism, which usually include variations on altruism, duty, excellence, honor and integrity, accountability, and respect. In fact, most of the scholarly work to date has been listing (attributes of professionalism), describing (activities that may foster it), decrying (the environment that works against it), and measuring/evaluating it.
In this collection of essays, we don’t argue with these attributes. Instead, we ask questions of the discourse from which they arise, how the specialized language of academic medicine disciplines has defined, organized, contained, and made seemingly immutable a group of attitudes, values, and behaviors subsumed under the label "professional" or "professionalism." This collection aims to be a critical text, one that questions the profession’s beliefs about the nature of its work and how such beliefs are enacted (or not) in medical education, particularly as they fuel the professionalism discourse. In addition, we will scrutinize how the discourse is enacted in both the formal and hidden curriculum, and in the larger medical environment.
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John Kultgen explores the ways morality and professional ideals are connected. In assessing the moral impact of professionalism in our society, he examines both the structure and organization of occupations and the ideals and ideology associated with them. Differing from standard treatments of professional ethics, Ethics and Professionalism recognizes that it is the practices within the professions that determine whether rules and ideals are used as masks for self-interest or for genuinely moral purposes. "This book provides a functional analysis of what it means to be a profession or a professional society."--Journal of Mass Media Ethics
Customer Reviews:
An inspiration as scholarship and promotion of an ideal.......2004-08-10
I am filled with appreciation for the ideals and articulateness of the author of this book. The book argues for an appreciation of the potential of all work to be meaningful in a way that serves humanity in the best sense of professionalism. I think the section of the concluding chapter, "Dedication to Service," should be read aloud in a sacred ceremony by everyone entering any profession whatsoever. The book is comprehensive, balanced, and throughly researched. The author's humanity and commitment shine through, while also displaying his sensitivity to language, his reasonableness, and his wisdom. He is a true philosopher (and educator and scholar and humanist).
Deserves to be knwn more widely.......2003-02-17
It is an extraordinarily original book. I have used its structure both in my book Ethical Choices in Business ( Sage 2003)and in teaching.It has undoubtedly a Marxist flavour. But it provides great insight into the sociology pf professionalism in a capitalist environment. Showing the fragility of professional ethics in a free marekt system it provides a chareacterisitc explanation to the events of Enron and the World.com I was expecting wide acquaintence with this book in the USA durng my recent lecture tour. But I found that it was practically unknown. The author should write more often to further the theme of this book
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Lawyers in the United States are frequently described as “hired guns,” willing to fight for any client and advance any interest. Claiming that their own beliefs are irrelevant to their work, they view lawyering as a technical activity, not a moral or political one.
But there are others, those the authors call cause lawyers, who refuse to put aside their own convictions while they do their legal work. This “deviant” strain of lawyering is as significant as it is controversial, both in the legal profession and in the world of politics. It challenges mainstream ideas of what lawyers should do and of how they should behave.
Human rights lawyers, feminist lawyers, right-to-life lawyers, civil rights and civil liberties lawyers, anti-death penalty lawyers, environmental lawyers, property rights lawyers, anti-poverty lawyers—cause lawyers go by many names, serving many causes. Something to Believe In explores the work that cause lawyers do, the role of moral and political commitment in their practice, their relationships to the organized legal profession, and the contributions they make to democratic politics.
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