Management as a Profession

“Profession is a vocation requiring some significant body of knowledge that is applied with a high degree of consistency in the service of some relevant segment of society.”

Hodge and Johnson

the growing size of the business units, growing competition, the fast turnaround in business, professionalism and accuracy in completing tasks, have led to an increased demand for professionally qualified managers.

A profession is an occupation that requires specialized knowledge and intensive academic preparations to which entry is regulated by a representative body.

The essentials that make management a profession :

-Specialized Knowledge: A management has a systematic body of knowledge that can be used for the development of professionals managers. Every manager must make deliberate efforts to acquire expertise in the principles and techniques. and must have devotion and involvement to acquire expertise in management.

-Formal Education & Training: No one can be a manager without going through a prescribed course of institutes and universities, Many institutes of management working for imparting education and training.

-Social Obligations: a manager is responsible also to the society and therefore he is expected to provide quality goods at reasonable prices to the society, the managers are primarily motivated by the desire to serve society, their actions are influenced by social norms and values.

The above discussion shows that management in some respects qualify as a profession but it does not have certain features which generally constitute a recognised profession, it is quite clear that management fulfils several essentials of a profession, but it is not a full-fledged profession because It does not restrict the entry in managerial jobs for an account of one standard or other, and there is no minimum qualifications have been prescribed for managers or certificate of practice to various managers, because the managers are known for their performance and not mere degrees.

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