Professionalizing Leadership: Debating Education, Certification and Practice

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Under the general editorship: A. Örtenblad​

- Offers engaging debate surrounding leadership as a profession

- Includes contributions from a diverse number of experts 

- Comprehensively illustrates the arguments for and against presenting leadership as a profession

This book presents a lively debate surrounding the professionalization of leadership. With
contributions from both sides of the argument, it considers the historical overview of leadership
and management as a profession, questions what constitutes a profession, and critically
addresses the practicality of professionalizing leadership. With a range of perspectives including
political philosophy, behavioral professionalism and management history, the book intends to
facilitate further discussion on the issues at stake. With a number of education programs
beginning to focus on the art and practice of leading people, this debate is particularly timely.

Chapters

The Future of Management: Global Trends and Possible Scenarios of Development of Managerial Profession

Moskovskaya, Alexandra, , in: Professionalizing Leadership: Debating Education, Certification and Practice.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Ch. 11 P. 199–217.

Being a cross-cutting profession, management is engaged in different types of activities which is why its current and future position should reflect the modern transformations of work and professions. It also should reflect changes in the object and the conditions of governing. Given such a perspective this paper studies the trends that can shape the ...

Added: July 28, 2018

Keywords: management, profession, leadership, professionalization