MATHESON, Craig <br/><br/>
Is the higher public sevice a profession? 

 - Oxford :  Blackwell Publishers Limited,  September 1998 
<br/><br/> Professionalisation in the public services is regarded as essential but the concept is ambiguous and organisationally weak. Moreover, if not jeopardosed by managerialism, public service professionalisation today faces some major barriers or limitations. Nonetheless, the public service may be able to maintain greater professional status with increased emphasis on job security, occupational closure and horizontal organisation.The prospects for conditions may now seem remote, but with this criteria in mind Australia will neglect the professionalism of its public service very much to its cost