Edited by Adrian Wilkinson, Distinguished Professor of Human Resource Management, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia, Donald Hislop, University of Aberdeen and Christine Coupland, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Loughborough University, UK

'This is an exciting collection, that provides a very good feel for the intellectual vigour that characterizes work on the contemporary professions. The book brings together an international team of multidisciplinary scholars who analyze professional work in the context of some of the big social science debates of our age, including managerialism, mobilities, globalization and the impact of information technology. This is an exciting field of study and this book contributes to this excitement.'

• Contents: PART I THEORETICAL/CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF PROFESSIONAL WORK 1. The Changing World of Professions and Professional WorkersAdrian Wilkinson, Donald Hislop and Christine Coupland2. Hybrid Organizations and Hybrid Professionalism: Changes, Continuities and ChallengesJulia Evetts 3. Impact of Managerialism upon Professionals in Public Services OrganizationsGraeme Currie and Charlotte Croft 4. The Changing Nature Professional and Managerial Work: Issues and Challenges from an Empirical Study of the UKLes Worrall, Kim Mather and Cary L. Cooper5. Discourses of Professional WorkChristine Coupland 6. The Work of Global Professional Service FirmsMehdi Boussebaa and James Faulconbridge7. Professions Under Pressure: Voices from the FieldChristine Coupland and Maree BoylePART II PROFESSIONAL WORK – CURRENT ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND CHANGES8. Agents of the Network Society: Spatial Mobility Patterns among Managerial and Professional WorkersDonald Hislop9. The Ambiguities of ‘Managed Professionalism’: Working In and With ITBob Russell, Clive Trusson and Sangita De 10. Challenges Facing the Accounting Profession: Maintaining Relevance in a Changing EnvironmentRuth King and Lin Fitzgerald11. Challenges and Change in the Architecture Profession: Demonstrating Uncertain Futures Through the Struggle for Gender EquityAmanda Roan and Gillian Matthewson12. The Emergence of New Kinds of Professional Work within the Health SectorSusan Brandis, Anneke Fitzgerald, Mark Avery, Ruth McPhail, Ron Fisher and Jessica Booth 13. The Construction of Professional IdentityBrianna Barker Caza and Stephanie Creary, 14. HRM as an Emerging New Managerial ProfessionPaul Higgins, Ian Rope and Sophie Gamwell 15. How my Granddad, the Churches of Christ and the Steam Engine Makers’ of Society Lifted our Family into the Professional Classes: An Essay in Social Science BiographyPeter Ackers 16. Professionalization, Projectification and Pressurization: Insights from Construction Project ManagementDaniel SageIndex

Edited by Adrian Wilkinson, Distinguished Professor of Human Resource Management, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia, Donald Hislop, University of Aberdeen and Christine Coupland, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Loughborough University, UK

'This is an exciting collection, that provides a very good feel for the intellectual vigour that characterizes work on the contemporary professions. The book brings together an international team of multidisciplinary scholars who analyze professional work in the context of some of the big social science debates of our age, including managerialism, mobilities, globalization and the impact of information technology. This is an exciting field of study and this book contributes to this excitement.'

• Contents: PART I THEORETICAL/CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF PROFESSIONAL WORK 1. The Changing World of Professions and Professional WorkersAdrian Wilkinson, Donald Hislop and Christine Coupland2. Hybrid Organizations and Hybrid Professionalism: Changes, Continuities and ChallengesJulia Evetts 3. Impact of Managerialism upon Professionals in Public Services OrganizationsGraeme Currie and Charlotte Croft 4. The Changing Nature Professional and Managerial Work: Issues and Challenges from an Empirical Study of the UKLes Worrall, Kim Mather and Cary L. Cooper5. Discourses of Professional WorkChristine Coupland 6. The Work of Global Professional Service FirmsMehdi Boussebaa and James Faulconbridge7. Professions Under Pressure: Voices from the FieldChristine Coupland and Maree BoylePART II PROFESSIONAL WORK – CURRENT ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND CHANGES8. Agents of the Network Society: Spatial Mobility Patterns among Managerial and Professional WorkersDonald Hislop9. The Ambiguities of ‘Managed Professionalism’: Working In and With ITBob Russell, Clive Trusson and Sangita De 10. Challenges Facing the Accounting Profession: Maintaining Relevance in a Changing EnvironmentRuth King and Lin Fitzgerald11. Challenges and Change in the Architecture Profession: Demonstrating Uncertain Futures Through the Struggle for Gender EquityAmanda Roan and Gillian Matthewson12. The Emergence of New Kinds of Professional Work within the Health SectorSusan Brandis, Anneke Fitzgerald, Mark Avery, Ruth McPhail, Ron Fisher and Jessica Booth 13. The Construction of Professional IdentityBrianna Barker Caza and Stephanie Creary, 14. HRM as an Emerging New Managerial ProfessionPaul Higgins, Ian Rope and Sophie Gamwell 15. How my Granddad, the Churches of Christ and the Steam Engine Makers’ of Society Lifted our Family into the Professional Classes: An Essay in Social Science BiographyPeter Ackers 16. Professionalization, Projectification and Pressurization: Insights from Construction Project ManagementDaniel SageIndex

Edited by Adrian Wilkinson, Distinguished Professor of Human Resource Management, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia, Donald Hislop, University of Aberdeen and Christine Coupland, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Loughborough University, UK

'This is an exciting collection, that provides a very good feel for the intellectual vigour that characterizes work on the contemporary professions. The book brings together an international team of multidisciplinary scholars who analyze professional work in the context of some of the big social science debates of our age, including managerialism, mobilities, globalization and the impact of information technology. This is an exciting field of study and this book contributes to this excitement.'

• Contents: PART I THEORETICAL/CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF PROFESSIONAL WORK 1. The Changing World of Professions and Professional WorkersAdrian Wilkinson, Donald Hislop and Christine Coupland2. Hybrid Organizations and Hybrid Professionalism: Changes, Continuities and ChallengesJulia Evetts 3. Impact of Managerialism upon Professionals in Public Services OrganizationsGraeme Currie and Charlotte Croft 4. The Changing Nature Professional and Managerial Work: Issues and Challenges from an Empirical Study of the UKLes Worrall, Kim Mather and Cary L. Cooper5. Discourses of Professional WorkChristine Coupland 6. The Work of Global Professional Service FirmsMehdi Boussebaa and James Faulconbridge7. Professions Under Pressure: Voices from the FieldChristine Coupland and Maree BoylePART II PROFESSIONAL WORK – CURRENT ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND CHANGES8. Agents of the Network Society: Spatial Mobility Patterns among Managerial and Professional WorkersDonald Hislop9. The Ambiguities of ‘Managed Professionalism’: Working In and With ITBob Russell, Clive Trusson and Sangita De 10. Challenges Facing the Accounting Profession: Maintaining Relevance in a Changing EnvironmentRuth King and Lin Fitzgerald11. Challenges and Change in the Architecture Profession: Demonstrating Uncertain Futures Through the Struggle for Gender EquityAmanda Roan and Gillian Matthewson12. The Emergence of New Kinds of Professional Work within the Health SectorSusan Brandis, Anneke Fitzgerald, Mark Avery, Ruth McPhail, Ron Fisher and Jessica Booth 13. The Construction of Professional IdentityBrianna Barker Caza and Stephanie Creary, 14. HRM as an Emerging New Managerial ProfessionPaul Higgins, Ian Rope and Sophie Gamwell 15. How my Granddad, the Churches of Christ and the Steam Engine Makers’ of Society Lifted our Family into the Professional Classes: An Essay in Social Science BiographyPeter Ackers 16. Professionalization, Projectification and Pressurization: Insights from Construction Project ManagementDaniel SageIndex