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Managers have no lack of choice when it comes to books on managing professional employees. The majority of these accounts, however, deal with technical professionals, such as scientists and engineers. Although the literature on the professions and on various professional occupations abounds, these accounts tent to be dated. Today, there is a growing interest in the so-called salaried professionals, those professionals who carry out their craft in organizations rather than in private practice, although recognition of their particular difficulties in integrating into the bureaucracy is relatively new among the general management audience. To date, there has not been an attempt to link the peculiarities of the salaried professional culture with the corporate culture of management. Thus managing professionals is essentially a mimicking process in which management uses its best instincts when working with professional rather than nonprofessional employees. Standard management practices are merely superimposed on strategies for managing salaried professionals. We know too much about the corporate and professional cultures to let this continue. We know that both managers and professionals are affected by the wider social cultures, which has slowly changed the attitudes and behaviors of people in the working world.ISBN - 9780875841410
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Pages : 318
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