Occupational organization

Occupational organization (also called professional organization or professional legal person including professional association) is institutions that are usually non-profit organizations and have long existed in certain industries to protect the interests of its member and of public. The balance between the two is sometimes stipulated in laws. Professional organizations can play a role in protecting the public by maintaining and strengthening the industry standards such as competition law or Ethical code on one hand, and it can also act as cartels or unions for members of the organizations on the other hand - though the nature of the organization is often rejected because of the legal person's own concerns.

General Function

See also: franchising

In most regions, doctors, engineers, logistics management, civil engineering, project management, accounting, and legal professions form professional organizations which usually shoulder the certification of the professional individuals. Many professional human bodies play the role of theoretical trainer for the professionals. Sometimes the organizations only provide members legal practices.

Professional organizations are not always bound only by self-governance sometimes from its suffrage or by government regulations. In the United States, for example, journalists struggle to avoid government definition such as their careers or "official" career definitions.

In some region, the organizations can form large capital from its collected membership fee.

Legal Function

In many countries, jury members of the general public may not have sufficient knowledge on a certain field of particular circumstances to act as competent jury members. For example, it is impossible to determine whether a civil engineering project has made enough efforts to prevent a bridge from collapsing. Therefore, the government has to invite autonomous professional organizations or association from relevant fields in the case to serve as jury members.

Membership

Many professional people get occupational licensing to ensure their certain quality in a certain field, and occupational organizations are sometimes synonymous with licencing authority, but that is not all. Some occupational laws like in Japan force particular professionals to join the particular occupational organizations to expand their public or political activities.

In many countries litigations on membership of occupational organizations are allowed and individuals often avoid promoting themselves as "professionals" unless he or she has a certain status in a professional organization in the field.

See Also

• Professional associations
• Advocacy
• Guild
• Inter-professional association
• Learned society
• Syndicate
• Trade association
• Trade union
• Working group
• Bar association
• Knights of the Garter

External links

• List of Professional bodies in the United Kingdom Archived 2016-11-28 at the Wayback Machine
• List of Professional bodies in Australia Archived 2015-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
• List of Professional bodies in Canada
• Anders Kjellberg Union density and specialist/professional unions in Sweden, Lund University: Studies in Social Policy, Industrial Relations, Working Life and Mobility. Research Reports 2013:2

Sources

• John Baschab, Jon Piot (2004), The Professional Services Firm Bible at Google Books
• David Brock, C. R. Hinings, Michael Powell (2012), Restructuring the Professional Organization: Accounting, Health Care and Law at Google Books

Notes

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