Understanding Professional Culture in Organizational Context
提出了一个新概念框架，用于理解组织情境中的专业文化，通过分析个体意义建构、群体信念与文化之间的复杂互动，并基于澳大利亚家庭护理服务的案例研究，探讨了四种专业亚文化与组织文化之间的关系。
This paper formulates a new conceptual framework for understanding profes sional culture in organizational context. Our analysis begins with an attempt to identify the complex interplay between individual sense-making, group beliefs and culture. The process of professionalization and the development of profes sional cultures is described and the influence of professional belief systems on organizational culture is examined. The inter-relationship between four different types of professional subculture and organizational culture is illustrated in a case- study analysis of an Australian home-care service. The stability of an organiza tion's operating environment is identified as a major factor which facilitates and constrains the propensity for professional subcultures to radically transform or incrementally refine dominant organizational cultures. The paper concludes with a critical reappraisal of the significance of professional subculture as a determin ant of an organization's cultural system.