The Professionalization of Everyone?

Wilensky, Harold L.

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“…Desde os anos 1960, quando constituía um conceito tipicamente funcionalista (WILENSKY, 1964), o termo "profissionalização" invadiu o campo do trabalho e de sua gestão na maioria dos países desenvolvidos. O imperativo de "tornar-se profissional" foi invadindo A escolarização, sobretudo, em toda parte, teve um forte crescimento e, às vezes, uma explosão: assim, na França, quase dois terços de uma faixa etária ingressa hoje no ensino superior (mas apenas 40% obtêm o diploma).…”

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A construção de si pela atividade de trabalho: a socialização profissional

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2012

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2012

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“…During the 1950s and 1960s many whitecollar occupations attempted to professionalize, and computer programmers were no exception. 78 They established professional societies, codes of ethics, and certification and curriculum standards. 79 Belonging to a profession provided an individual with a ''monopoly of competence'', the control over a valuable skill that was readily transferable from organization to organization.…”

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Letting the “Computer Boys” Take Over: Technology and the Politics of Organizational Transformation

Ensmenger¹

2003

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In the decades following the development of the first electronic digital computers, the computer industry in the United States grew from nothing into an important and expansive sector of the American economy. Whereas in the early 1950s electronic computers were generally regarded as interesting but extravagant scientific curiosities, by 1963 these devices and their associated peripherals formed the basis of a billion-dollar industry. By the beginning of the 1970s, more than 165,000 computers had been installed in the United States alone, and the computer and software industries employed several hundred thousand individuals worldwide.

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“…Following the sociological literature on professions, we view norms as morally regulated role expectations for members of the profession (Goode 1957, Wilensky 1964, Merton 1973[1942, Freidson 2001). However, we depart from the traditional characterization of professional norms by suggesting that their influence operates at the level of reference groups embedded within the profession rather than more broadly across the profession.…”

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To Share or Not to Share? Professional Norms, Reference Groups, and Information Withholding Among Life Scientists

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2010

Organization Science

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Why do scientists withhold information from colleagues, violating the professional norm of sharing? Norm violations are usually attributed to individual interests that lead scientists to reject professional norms. In contrast, we take the view that norm violations can occur when professional norms are valued but it is difficult to ascertain the appropriate course of professional conduct. This view suggests that scientists may look to cues from their professional reference groups to resolve sociological ambivalence arising from conflicting role expectations. We analyze a data set of 1,251 geneticists and other life scientists from 100 U.S. universities and find that beyond individual-level explanations, information withholding is influenced by the behaviors of peers as well as the attitudes of superiors in the profession. We discuss the implications for the professions literature, theories of organizational learning, and knowledge management initiatives in firms.

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The Professionalization of Everyone?

Cited by 1,794 publications

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A construção de si pela atividade de trabalho: a socialização profissional

A construção de si pela atividade de trabalho: a socialização profissional

Letting the “Computer Boys” Take Over: Technology and the Politics of Organizational Transformation

To Share or Not to Share? Professional Norms, Reference Groups, and Information Withholding Among Life Scientists

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