The Profession is a thriller novel by Steven Pressfield. Set in , the novel depicts a highly militarized future where there is severe conflict in the Middle.
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However, it also has other meanings. One major implication of professional autonomy is the traditional ban on corporate practice of the professions, especially accounting, architecture, medicine, and law. This means that in many jurisdictions, these professionals cannot do business through regular for-profit corporations and raise capital rapidly through initial public offerings or flotations. Instead, if they wish to practice collectively they must form special business entities such as partnerships or professional corporations , which feature 1 reduced protection against liability for professional negligence and 2 severe limitations or outright prohibitions on ownership by non-professionals.
The obvious implication of this is that all equity owners of the professional business entity must be professionals themselves. This avoids the possibility of a non-professional owner of the firm telling a professional how to do his or her job and thereby protects professional autonomy.
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The idea is that the only non-professional person who should be telling the professional what to do is the client ; in other words, professional autonomy preserves the integrity of the two-party professional-client relationship. But because professional business entities are effectively locked out of the stock market, they tend to grow relatively slowly compared to public corporations. Professions enjoy a high social status , regard and esteem conferred upon them by society. All professions involve technical, specialized and highly skilled work often referred to as "professional expertise.
Updating skills through continuing education is required through training. All professions have power. A profession tends to dominate, police and protect its area of expertise and the conduct of its members, and exercises a dominating influence over its entire field which means that professions can act monopolist, [19] rebuffing competition from ancillary trades and occupations, as well as subordinating and controlling lesser but related trades. It is the power, prestige and value that society confers upon a profession that more clearly defines it.
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The power of professions has led to them being referred to as conspiracies against the laity. On the other hand, professionals acquire some of their power and authority in organizations from their expertise and knowledge. As such they can bend rules, reduce bureaucratic inertia and increase problem solving and adaptability. There is considerable agreement about defining the characteristic features of a profession. They have a "professional association, cognitive base, institutionalized training, licensing, work autonomy , colleague control Members of a profession have also been defined as "workers whose qualities of detachment, autonomy, and group allegiance are more extensive than those found among other groups A profession has been further defined as: A critical characteristic of a profession is the need to cultivate and exercise professional discretion - that is, the ability to make case by case judgements that cannot be determined by an absolute rule or instruction.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Profession disambiguation. Jesus and the doctors of the Faith , by the entourage of Giuseppe Ribera. Australian Council of Professions. Retrieved 9 August Retrieved 10 September Fisher's National Magazine and Industrial Record.
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Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. Life in Texas teacher education". Archived from the original on 10 May Retrieved 7 November There are also references to Alexander the Great which has been the subject of several of Pressfield's novels. There is a theme of liberty versus empire that is depicted in this novel and manifested in Gent, who has difficulty deciding between the two. It parallels the difficulties of the Roman Empire with the gain of Imperial power at the expense of liberty and freedom of the people.
At the end of the novel, the United States republic has a similar end as did the Roman republic and Salter is even likened to Julius Caesar. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Themes [ edit ].
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