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The Foundations of
Professions
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The Subject of Profession
Professions exist because there are
professionals
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The term subject implies activity, action and
dynamism. A subject is a doer, an actor.Subject is the counter-part of object. A subject
is active while an object is something passive.
Thus, professionals, as makers and activecarriers, are called subjects of professions
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The Subject of Professions is A Person
The subject of a profession is a human person. a subjective being capable of acting in a
planned and rational way, capable of deciding
about himself, and with a tendency to self-realization
Phenomenologists describe man as anincarnate subjectivity means that man is a
dynamic being, a subjectivity, a unique core orcenter, source, depth, wellspring of initiativeand meaning (Manuel Dy, Jr. 1986: VI)
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It is for this reason too that work is perceivedas a fundamental dimension of human
existence on earth. For it is through professionthat, aside from the acquisition of goodsnecessary for human subsistence, theprofessional realizes too his dignity and worth
as a person. Through the profession, theprofessional may become more a humanbeing, a person. Nobody else can do thisexcept himself.
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The problem today?
The value of the personhood and subjectivityof the professional worker is immersed in andovershadowed by the profession he performs.
Feelings of social discrimination and socialclassification would develop. Feelings ofsuperiority would develop among the higherprofessionals and feelings of inferiority amongthe lowly professionals, despite the fact thatthey are all professionals, which they share incommon
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The value of work or profession is not to be
gauged by the nature of kind of work, NOT
even by the amount of professional
renumeration. The primary basis of the value
of profession is to be judged by the measure
of the dignity and worth of its subject, theprofessional.
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LABOREM EXORCENS emphasizes:
The basis for determining the value of humanwork is not primarily the kind of work being done
but the fact that the one who is doing it is a
person. The sources of the dignity of work are to
be sought in the subjective dimension, not in theobjective one
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Utilitarian attitude can have the following
negative tendencies:
1. The employer tends to disregard concern for the
personal welfare of the worker
2. Superiority-inferiority complex will develop
3. Employess will be prone to abuses or maltreatment4. Salary rates will be affected
5. Relationship between management and labor will
be adversely affected.6. Work efficiency will be affected.
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The Clients
They are individuals in particular, the public or
society in general who are entitled to avail of
services from professionals. They are persons
who need to be helped in the resolution of
their problems. Clients are the very reason
why professionals and professions exist. They
are the reason why professions are createdand exercised.
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Rights of the Clients
1. Clients have the right to consult a
professional of their choice
2. Clients have the right to avail of services of
professionals
3. Clients have the fight to be respected
4. Clients have the right to be protected
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Duties of Clients
1. To submit themselves and/or their problemsfor examination and evaluation
2. To perform directions or prescriptions as
directed by the consulted professional /s fortheir own good or interests
3. To give due respect to the professional andhis profession
4. To pay whatever financial obligations he hasto the professional for the services renderedhim