Professional Associations

Term Paper # 101878

Business

This paper analyzes the role of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) as a professional association.

2,696 words () | 11 sources | MLA | 2008 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper explores the function of professional associations and shows how they establish a baseline of expectations, training and industry skill-sets upon which companies can rely on to establish the competency levels of their workforce. The paper focuses on the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), a leading professional association in the property and construction industry globally. The paper discusses how the role of RICS and other professional organizations has expanded greatly from their original function as more of a social organization for professionals to a more encompassing function with deeper economic ramifications.

Outline:
Overview
Target Association
Professional Development
The Construction Workplace
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The role of professional associations within the contemporary business environment and global economy has grown over the last several decades. While in the past professional associations have served to augment professional licensing services as well as to provide professional licensing services, they were often marginalized at the periphery of the particular industry with which they were associated. Bennett describes professional associations as, "collective bodies that are intermediary between individual business action and state action...they are one of a number of organizations that may influence the development of individual businesses and the wider competitiveness of a nation"(244). Viewed in this manner, the role of professional organizations is much more expansive than that of merely a supporting role to industry in general or a licensing body that contributes professional competencies to an industry."

Sample of Sources Used:

"About Rics." Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (online). Feb 22, 2007<http://www.rics.org/AboutRICS/>.
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