TY - CHAP
T1 - Professional agency, leadership and organizational change
AU - Denis, Jean Louis
AU - Van Gestel, Nicolette
AU - Lepage, Annick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 selection and editorial material, Mike Dent, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Jean-Louis Denis and Ellen Kuhlmann.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - This chapter examines the concept of professional identity as it relates to social work. It facilitates greater theoretical clarity and map possible alternatives, such as the institutional logics perspective, to afford a better understanding of the field of social work. The chapter focuses on the significance of professional socialisation, workplace culture, boundary maintenance, jurisdiction disputes and inter-professional tensions with health, education and the police. It highlights the importance of beliefs as well as attachment and sense of belonging for the study of professional identity. Professional identification is associated with increased personal accomplishment. The importance of identity formation as mainly social and relational in nature is attenuated. It is concerned with narratives of recognition, trust, gossip and organisational rituals within hierarchal settings. The prospect for what Abbott calls competing jurisdictional claims of expertise and knowledge within the system of professions makes working life increasingly uncertain for social work and thus brings matters of professional identity much more to the fore.
AB - This chapter examines the concept of professional identity as it relates to social work. It facilitates greater theoretical clarity and map possible alternatives, such as the institutional logics perspective, to afford a better understanding of the field of social work. The chapter focuses on the significance of professional socialisation, workplace culture, boundary maintenance, jurisdiction disputes and inter-professional tensions with health, education and the police. It highlights the importance of beliefs as well as attachment and sense of belonging for the study of professional identity. Professional identification is associated with increased personal accomplishment. The importance of identity formation as mainly social and relational in nature is attenuated. It is concerned with narratives of recognition, trust, gossip and organisational rituals within hierarchal settings. The prospect for what Abbott calls competing jurisdictional claims of expertise and knowledge within the system of professions makes working life increasingly uncertain for social work and thus brings matters of professional identity much more to the fore.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104051531&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315779447-30
DO - 10.4324/9781315779447-30
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85104051531
SN - 9781138018891
SP - 215
EP - 227
BT - The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism
PB - Taylor and Francis Ltd.
ER -