ABSTRACT
This book has described in detail the experiences of professionals in a variety of institutions in education and health. For many, their problems and dilemmas have been very much of the here and now: problems of implementation, issues to do with relationships with their managers and their colleagues. Yet there seems little doubt from what has gone before that many of these problems are the creation of new pressures upon the life of professionals, emanating primarily from legislation aimed at those within the state sector, but affecting eventually and inevitably those within the private sector as well. The case studies presented indicate that individual concerns and private dilemmas, when viewed as part of the pattern of reactions within an institution, and then within a wider pattern of different institutions, can be understood as illustrations of wider themes or patterns. It is suggested here, then, that, particularly in the public sector, but increasingly in the private sector as well, one can identify 13 major themes as follows.
