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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
Constructing Professional Identity – The Experience of Work Based
Learning Candidates
Author(s): Lynn Nichol, Sue Williams
Citation: Lynn Nichol, Sue Williams, (2014) "Constructing Professional Identity – The Experience of Work Based Learning Candidates," American Journal of Management, Vol. 14, Iss. 1-2, pp. 43 - 46
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
Previous research into professional identity has argued that training institutions shape professional
formation. This research focuses on professionals who have undertaken a work based approach and
explores the interrelationship between practitioners’ own narrative of professional identity and that
encoded within the narrative of the standards of a professional HR/HRD body. The findings begin to
question the traditional understanding of the inter-relationship between the narrative of the professional
body and individual HR/HRD practitioner narratives of identity suggesting that neither the professional
body nor the mainstream educational institution are the major players in the development of professional
identity.
