Professionalism and Semi‐professionalism among Immigrant Teachers from the U.S.S.R. and North America

Horowitz, Tamar

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“…Semi-professions are characterized by shorter training, lower legitimacy status, less established right to privileged communication, less specialized body of knowledge, less autonomy from supervision or social control than traditional professions, and a predominance of female workers (Etzioni, 1969;Horowitz, 1985;Howsam, Corrigan, Denemark, & Nash, 1976).…”

Section: The Concept Of Profession and Two Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risky Professions? Risk of Disability in Professions in Norway

Tufte

2013

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Abstract:Modern professions provide important and essential services like engineering, financial services, and welfare state services. Sustaining a sufficient supply of these services requires professionals to remain in the workforce as long as possible. This article examines variation in the risk of disability pension among individuals with different professional education backgrounds according to the status of the profession and its primary task (i.e., caring for others, "life" professions; or providing other kinds of services, "thing" professions). Event history analysis was employed to examine register data for the Norwegian population from 1992 through 2008, with gender, age at completed education, birth year, and social status as control variables. The results indicate that individuals in low-status life professions were exposed to a greater risk of disability pension than individuals with other professional education backgrounds. Possible explanations are mechanisms related to selection effects, physical and mental job strain, and professional ethics.

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Section: The Concept Of Profession and Two Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risky Professions? Risk of Disability in Professions in Norway

Tufte

2013

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“…Again, there are additional limitations in assigning semi-professionalism to personal support work as semiprofessionalism is underdeveloped in health work literature. First, there is an assumption that a semi-profession simply falls short of possessing the full attributes of a profession, as Etzioni (1969) suggests of teaching relative to medicine or law (Horowitz, 1985). Thus, little attention has been paid to developing a set of criteria for a semi-professional.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Defining a Profession And Semi-professionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Organization of Personal Support Work in Ontario, Canada

Marani¹,

McKay²,

Marchildon

2021

Journal of Long Term Care

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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed fault-lines in the organization of personal support work, including low wages, part-time employment, and risky working condition, despite its essential nature in long-term care (LTC). This is, in part, because personal support work has long-existed on the fringes of what is considered health work, thereby precluding its status as a health profession. In this perspective paper, we explore how the pandemic may contribute to the semi-professionalization of personal support work based on the provision of LTC by personal support workers (PSWs) working in LTC facilities in Ontario, Canada. We first characterize personal support work to illustrate its current organization based on the logics of work control. We then speculate how the pandemic may shift control and map speculated changes onto existing checklists of professionalism and semi-professionalism in health work. We propose the pandemic will shift control away from existing market and hierarchical controls. At most, personal support work may undergo changes that are more characteristic of semi-professional control (semi-professionalism), characterized by the formation of a PSW registry that may improve role clarity, provide market shelter, and standardize wages. We do not believe this shift in control will solve all organizational problems that the pandemic has exposed, and continued market and hierarchical controls may be necessary. This perspective may provide insights for other high-income settings, where the pandemic has exposed similar fault-lines in the organization of personal support work in LTC.

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“…Students were encouraged to identify their talents and vocational predispositions as early as possible to follow their calling in choosing a type and a specialty of post-secondary education initiating a lifelong occupational career of socially useful labor. The specialized institutions of higher learning (pedagogical, medical, polytechnic, and other institutes) provided extensive in-service training, cultivated an idealistic approach to professional work and emphasized broad definitions of professional responsibilities (Horowitz, 1985).…”

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“…Finally, a prominent professional disposition, professional responsibility, that represents the moral noninstrumental factor we expected to influence professional commitment, positively affects professional commitment. In the Russian context, this finding points primarily to the enduring attitudinal dispositions inculcated by the Soviet educational system (Horowitz, 1985). Many Russian specialists, particularly among the intelligentsia, have deeply internalized the notion of lifelong occupational service and stay dedicated to their social mission despite the increasing economic disadvantage of being a specialist.…”

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Professional Commitment of Russian Provincial Specialists

Osinsky¹,

Mueller

2004

Work and Occupations

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This article examines the determinants of professional commitment of college-educated specialists in one of the Russian provinces. We analyze the specialists’ professional commitment as determined by two sets of orientations: universalistic instrumental factors (compensation, career advancement and opportunities of alternative employment) and specifically professional noninstrumental factors (professional responsibility, cognitive orientation, and cultural capital). Although both instrumental and noninstrumental factors affect professional commitment of Russian specialists, noninstrumental factors are the most important. The article also identifies significant differences between two groups of Russian professionals, technocrats, and the traditional intelligentsia.

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Professionalism and Semi‐professionalism among Immigrant Teachers from the U.S.S.R. and North America

Cited by 9 publications

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Risky Professions? Risk of Disability in Professions in Norway

Risky Professions? Risk of Disability in Professions in Norway

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Organization of Personal Support Work in Ontario, Canada

Professional Commitment of Russian Provincial Specialists

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