Professional Responsibility and Professionalism A sociomaterial examination [Paperback]

Responsibility and professionalism are increasingly issues of concern for professional associations, employers and educators alike. When bad things happen, professionals are often held personally accountable for complex situations. Professional Responsibility and Professionalism advances our approaches to professional responsibility from individual-centred, virtue-based prescriptions towards understanding and responding effectively to the multifaceted challenges encountered today by professionals working in dynamic complexity. The author applies a sociomaterial examination to specific examples drawn from different professional contexts of practice. She examines important implications for what professional responsibility and accountability might mean individually and collectively, and what it might be becoming when demands increasingly conflict, and when we accept that capacities for action are performed into existence in emergent and precarious webs of both human and non-human forces.

The chapters explore some of the most prominent questions in professional responsibility, including:

• What does professional responsibility, and accountability, mean in the escalating complexities and conflicts confronting todays professionals?
• How does professional responsibility become developed and enacted, and through what social and material entanglements?
• How should responsibility be determined in multi-agency and interprofessional practice?
• What happens when professional decisions are delegated to software algorithms and diagnostic instruments?
• How are new governing regimes of professional work, such as innovation imperatives, excessive audit and logics of blame and scapegoating, reconfiguring responsibility?
• How can professionals respond simultaneously to inln