| Abstract: | Professionals have concerns about their freedom and autonomy, particularly when they work within organisations. Managers have corporate goals to achieve and have few sources of power with which to direct the professionals. This paper argues that given a high calibre of managerial leadership it is possible to manage the professionals. The reasons for the tensions between the two groups are examined and related to respective values and cultures. It is argued that in most organisations there is sufficient consonance between the aims of the two groups for a shared vision and shared values to be established once potential leaders have been identified. A point is made about the methods of achieving this. |
