'A professional needs to be transparent'

Harshini PERERA

The fundamental difference between a professional and a practitioner is that a professional brings experience together with the theoretical knowledge. The practitioner will only decide on his personal experience.

The knowledge a professional gathered from the theories and concepts he has learnt combined with personal experience will create value to the organization. Therefore, the professional's response is far more accurate than the practitioner's response, Jayewardenepura University Post Graduate Institute of Management Prof Uditha Liyanage said at the AAT Annual Convocation 2010 participating as the chief guest.

Thus the professional's response will create value to the organization rather than a practitioner in the business world today.

"As an accountaning technician, a professional will be a master in accomplishing tasks while being a people's master. He should be able to co-operate with fellow employees and be a team player and should know how to persuade and encourage them and how to handle conflicts," he said. A professional should also be a master of his context. A professional should understand the organization context and at large the environment he has to work.

He said a professional will always do right for the sake of high proficiency.

"As a professional one should be transparent, accountable and should not compromise on the integrity at any cost," Liyanage said. A professional has to give something back to the organization and to the community at large. "If a professional believes that the organization he works for would not get him to the success,then he should change the profession.

If a professional believes that he has the wrong boss and it will not get him to the destination," he said.