the foundations of professions

7/29/2019 The Foundations of Professions

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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

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