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In the macro level, we will conduct interview and phone call with the representatives of national pharmacist association in the Netherlands and Indonesia, the process will take time on March 2010. Prior interview question will be tested to 3 different people. In the Netherlands, the questionnaire will be tested to the head of young pharmacist association and the head of district pharmacist association. In Indonesia, we will test the questionnaire to former director of pharmacist association, head of pharmacist association in provincial and district level.

Method of Analysis

The data will be analyzed conform the theory of motivation and public agency by Julian Le Grand. This is used to figure out the position of pharmacist in health care system. To find out the relationship between professional role and remuneration system, we use SPSS as statistic tool to provide liner regression analysis. Whereas for comparative study, we use Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to compare the result from the Netherlands and Indonesia.

Theoretical Background

Professionalism, the heart of a profession

In the modern society, there is no guarantee that any profession will possess professional status and recognition from the society. This assumption also linier to reward received by the profession. Even if the professional is successful to keep the status then it will need more hard work to maintain it in the same level. Professional values are threatened by many factors like Calder (Calder 2000) points out that the elite status of a profession is a result of strict monopoly that is maintained to keep their vital position. The skills and knowledge of professionals plus their concern with services are the primary factors to obtain supreme status and rewards.

Abbott (Abbott 1988) in his book The System of The Profession, An Essay of The Division of Expert Labor opens the discussion with interesting statement that 'The professions dominate our world. They heal our bodies, measure our profits, save our souls'. Abbott refers the statement to medical doctors, accountants and priests that are commonly known as traditional profession in the mankind history. He further explains that none of this professions are absolute of permanent, in fact they compete within the system. Nevertheless, from time to time they are successful to maintain the strengths and the weaknesses in order to make up an interesting system, an ecology that reflects their jurisdiction to claim the domain of professional work. Jurisdiction is the powerful tool to manage their monopoly on the profession, he adds that one profession jurisdiction preempts another that means there is always carnivorous competition among professions. The more they have jurisdiction, the more powerful they are.

In line to Abbott, Savage (Savage 1994) argues that 'A profession is a network of strategic alliance across ownership boundaries among practitioners who share a core competence'. She underlines professional competence as habitual and judicious use of skills, knowledge, comm本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。