Managing Professional Identities: Knowledge, Performativities and the 'New' Professional / Edition 1

by Mike Dent, Stephen Whitehead

Overview

This book addresses the nature of current shifts in professional and managerial knowledge and practice, particularly in relation to power and accountability. Connecting with current debates concerned with work and identity, the book will present a range of theoretical and empirical accounts of the dilemmas and issues facing specialists in various organizational arenas as they seek to adapt to the challenges of organizational and cultural transformation. Contributions offer innovative and sophisticated theoretical engagements which draw upon various perspectives, including those of post-structuralism, feminism, post-marxism and post-modernism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415231206
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/11/2001
Series:	Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1420L (what's this?)

About the Author

Mike Dent, Stephen Whitehead

Table of Contents

Part One: The Professional Under Scrutiny
Part Two: Performing and Negotiating Professional Identity
Part Three: Maps And Knowledges for the 'New' Professional