Artikel
An Anatomy of Autonomy: Managing Professionals
The most vexing problem in the management of salaried professionals is how to provide them with their espoused right of autonomy while ensuring adequate control of the organization. In this article, Joseph Raelin explains how a standard approach of granting professionals operational autonomy (autonomy over the means or procedures to be used) while according management administrative and strategic autonomy (autonomy over the activities of the organizational unit or over the missions of the entire enterprise) is a convenient norm for executives to adopt in most situations. However, he goes on to illustrate how to manage the critical exceptions: those conditions when professionals out to be granted administrative and strategic autonomy as well as those conditions when management may actually invade the operational autonomy of the professional.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Academy of Management Perspectives ; ISSN: 1943-4529 ; Volume: 3 ; Year: 1989 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 216-228 ; Briarcliff Manor, NY: Academy of Management
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Professional Labor Markets; Occupational Licensing
Personal, Professional, and Business Services
Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Subject
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Managing professionals
Professional autonomy
Managerial control
Professionalization
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Raelin, Joseph A.
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Veröffentlichung
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Academy of Management
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
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Briarcliff Manor, NY
- (when)
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1989
- DOI
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doi:10.5465/ame.1989.4274740
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Object type
- Artikel
Associated
- Raelin, Joseph A.
- Academy of Management
- ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Time of origin
- 1989
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