The Professions in Production
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
ISSN: 0144-3577
Article publication date: 1 January 1981
Abstract
There is now a very extensive literature on the subject of professions. There is, moreover, the frantic activity of members of those occupations concerned with production, such as production engineering and work study, to lay claim to the title — professional. Yet no one seems to have examined in any detail whether production would benefit or not if such occupations were professionalised. This paper offers some preliminary thoughts on the problem. First the nature of professions is examined; secondly, the field of production; thirdly changing trends in the world of work, within which production and those associated with production are located; finally some conclusions on the place of the professions in production are offered.
Citation
Kirkman, F. (1981), "The Professions in Production", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 1 No. 3, pp. 151-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054668
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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