What Is Professionalism?

Sociologist has defined professionalism as "self defined power elitism or an organised exclusivity along guild lines". George Bernard Shaw has stated all profession as "conspiracies against the laity". Professionalism is all about attaining a professional status. Professionalism today is also considered at a level which involves interacting with clients and making decisions that could directly affect the organisation.

Profession could be in the field of any study like: librarianship, accounting, law, teaching, architecture, medicine, finance, the military, the clergy, nursing, also individuals who work or perform research in the various sciences, or engineering. In the early times there were just three professional fields which were ministry, medicine and law.