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Judith Allsop - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social policy, professional regulation and health support work in the United Kingdom
Social Policy and Society, 2007Co-Authors: Mike Saks, Judith AllsopAbstract:This paper examines the neglected area of health support work in the United Kingdom in the context of recent social policy and studies of professionalisation. A variety of socioeconomic trends have led policy makers to give greater consideration to this section of the healthcare workforce. Professional regulatory issues and recent reviews in the health field have provided the leverage to alter existing healthcare boundaries, as well as to enhance public protection. Drawing on commissioned research, it is argued that health support workers are not only an important area of study in their own right, but also raise interesting questions about the broader process of health policy making and professionalisation.
Carl Marnewick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Investing in project management certification: Do organisations get their money’s worth?
Information Technology and Management, 2018Co-Authors: Nazeer Joseph, Carl MarnewickAbstract:The professionalisation of project management has been a contentious topic for some time. Project management certification is seen as a step towards the professionalisation of the discipline. Certifications were developed as a means to provide individuals with the appropriate knowledge and skills required to deliver projects successfully. Although project management certification programmes are now commonplace across the globe, research is yet to fully investigate the true influence certifications have on project performance. This paper revealed that South African IT project performance is not influenced by project management certification. Moreover, it was established that certifications need to be redesigned to ensure that the professionalisation of project management remains on track.
Man-fung Lo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The strategic and cultural legitimacy of HR Professionalization in Hong Kong
Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2018Co-Authors: Paul O'higgins, Man-fung LoAbstract:In Hong Kong, human resources (HR) practice has reached a point of Professionalization not yet apparent in other parts of China creating opportunities for best practice diffusion across rapidly developing cities, provinces, and regions. The aim of this paper is to ascertain the strategic and cultural legitimacy of human resource management (HRM) in Hong Kong from the perspective of the occupation’s status as an emerging profession. Combining established theory on professions with documented insights from normative associational ideals, this paper derives four major sources of HR Professionalization, which it entitles strategy, communication, administration, and discipline. Assuming that tasks performed by the most senior, qualified and experienced practitioners hold greatest empirical sway over the prospect of occupational association, this study finds that a combination of strategic and communication practices emerge as the two most likely routes to HR Professionalization. Based on survey responses from a representative sample of 172 certified practitioners, the findings support the notion of HR as a strategic asset, raising important implications for the professional status of the occupation within an Asian management context.
Mike Saks - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social policy, professional regulation and health support work in the United Kingdom
Social Policy and Society, 2007Co-Authors: Mike Saks, Judith AllsopAbstract:This paper examines the neglected area of health support work in the United Kingdom in the context of recent social policy and studies of professionalisation. A variety of socioeconomic trends have led policy makers to give greater consideration to this section of the healthcare workforce. Professional regulatory issues and recent reviews in the health field have provided the leverage to alter existing healthcare boundaries, as well as to enhance public protection. Drawing on commissioned research, it is argued that health support workers are not only an important area of study in their own right, but also raise interesting questions about the broader process of health policy making and professionalisation.
Darren G. Lilleker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Strategic Political Communication
Political Communication and Cognition, 2014Co-Authors: Darren G. LillekerAbstract:It is argued that political communication has gone through a process of transformation. The transformation is depicted in Figure 1.1, but the chapter contextualises the transformation within current literature and practices of political communication. Political communication is argued to have simultaneously passed through three interconnected processes: professionalisation, mediatisation and marketisation. These processes are argued to have shaped the strategies and tactics of political communicators and have had a profound impact upon the publics’ levels of trust, engagement and participation. The professionalisation of political communication describes the way that politics has adapted to new forms and styles of communication and new means of transmission in order to reach their audience. It is argued that professionalisation is driven by media, and adapting to the communication forms of media; we find ourselves today in the hypermedia age, with the Internet competing against television as the prime vehicle for political communication. Whether this changes the substance of political communication, the content of the message or just the presentation style will be explored further in this chapter. Secondly, and related to professionalisation, we turn to mediatisation. Mediatisation describes the process by which political communicators adapt to the working practices and patterns of journalists and editors in order to gain coverage.
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the Professionalization of political communication continuities and change in media practices
European Journal of Communication, 2002Co-Authors: Ralph Negrine, Darren G. LillekerAbstract:Professionalization has become a self-defining, catch-all buzzword employed to explain the recent changes in political communication. However, because of the catch-all or blanket explanatory quality of the term `Professionalization', its use within the literature on political communication and campaigning obscures multifaceted shifts in the methods by which political actors communicate through the media. Drawing on a number of interviews with former and current UK members of parliament and prospective parliamentary candidates, the authors argue that much of what is referred to within the discourse of Professionalization is linked more to responses to technological change. They propose, therefore, that more care should be taken when describing all modern political communication as professional, otherwise there is a danger of inferring that the practices of the past were amateurish; a conclusion that does not stand up to rigorous research.
