A System Dynamics Approach to Jurisdictional Conflict between a Major and a Minor Healthcare Profession

摘要

A myriad of theories and perspectives have emerged from the study ofprofessions. On the one hand, the notion exists that blue collar laborers are increasingly becoming professionalized (Foote 1953), and on the other hand there is the perception that as technology and information systems move forward, a specialized system of knowledge may no longer be sufficient justification for an exclusive right to work and exalted status, for any occupational group (Morgall and Almardottir 1999). Amidst these contrasting world views is the perspective of a hierarchical division of the professions themselves.