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the professions are strictly neither 'Management'
nor
'Labour'. Professional
employees do
not
identify themselves with 'Labour and, though not
a few may be charged with management or ad
ministrative responsibilities, it is unusual to find
that they have so merged with management or
administration as to lose their professional identity
and shed all professional responsibility.
Professional
associations
seek
to
guarantee
quality, and, in the case of the older traditional
associations embracing law and medicine,
they
endeavour to guarantee integrity by adherence to
a strict code of conduct. But, whether old or new,
the emphasis is on qualification and an indication
of competence. It is by virtue of this qualification
that professional people claim a special status, by
which is ment a social estimate of esteem stemming
from a function performed or an office held. It is
a gradation in a hierarchy bestowed because of a
special qualification resulting from an intensive
course of training in a liberal art or technological
skill. It is a social estimate of prestige.
In the case of professional employees, profes
sional performance still remains measurable only
against professional standards. Whilst business
competence may measure the standard of manage
ment performance, professional
standards are
determined outside the enterprise. They are not
related to its success and are set by the profession
itself. Thus it is that, as in the practitioner-client
relationship, the professional employee looks to
quality as his motivation, and expects reward to
be a reflection rather than a source of it. He looks
to the recognition and maintenance of status as
something from which 'due reward' will follow
rather than having to be fought for.
It is in this realm that a marked distinction is
to be seen between the professional association
and the trade union. 'Management' and 'Labour'
confront each other in a market and work situat
ion. The concern is with economic power. Un
happily, these conceptions have become indicative
of conflict, and collective bargaining seems to have
developed into an institutionalised form of this
conflict. Although of recent years, professional
associations have been from time to time called
upon by their members—in particular those who
are in salaried employment—to extend their pro
tective function, they are not structured or organ
ised as pressure groups. Industrial action is con
trary to the responsible and confidential relation
ship between professional employees and their
employers. It is in conflict with the functions which
they serve, and with the standards of professional
commitment as a service to the public.
Nevertheless, there would seem to be no good
reason why professional associations should not co
operate with management with a view to the
removal of misunderstanding which is so often the
basis of controversy. Communication of informat
ion
is a ready and essential source of mutual
appreciation
and understanding. Comparative
surveys of function, trained skill, responsibility and
reward would, I suggest, serve a useful purpose. In
this, I see no conflict with the standards to which
we adhere. The use made of qualification to pro
mote and preserve individual personal relationship
with an employer does not derogate from the
'image' of the professional, whether employed or
self-employed, and which we all strive to enhance.
REGISTRATION OF TITLE ACT,
1964
ISSUE
OF
NEW
LAND CERTIFICATES
Applications have been received from the registered
owners mentioned in the Schedule annexed hereto, for
the issue of Certificates of Title in substitution for the
original Certificates issued in respect of the lands speci
fied in the said Schedule, which original Certificates, it
is alleged, have been lost or inadvertently destroyed.
A new Certificate will be issued in each case, except
a case in respect of which notification is received in this
Registry within 28 days from the publication of this
notice, that the Certificate of Title is still in existence,
and in the custody of some person other than the reg
istered owner Any such notification should state
the
grounds on which such Certificate is being held.
Dated the 30th day of July, 1968 D. L. McAllister,
Registrar of Titles. Central Office, Land Registry,
Chancery Street, Dublin.
SCHEDULE
1.
Registered Owner Francis West Mitchell. P'olio
number 6650. County Tipperary. Lands of Cooleeshill
in the Barony of Ikerrin containing 130 acres 1
rood
20 perches.
2. Registered Owner Francis West Mitchell. Folio
•number 1988. County Kings. Lands of Caaleeshill in the
Barony of Ballybritt containing 195 acres 0 roods 35
perches.
3. Registered Owner Nora Murphy. Folio number 6759
County. Mayo Lands of Cordarragh in the Barony of
Gallen containing 1 rood 20 perches.
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