Specialization is becoming the order of the day in all professions, and there are not many who are prepared to go for general practicing of any academic qualifications.

How good or bad is this trend in your opinion?

Precision services are highly in demand these days and, as a result, the number of takers for general career practicing is dwindling alarmingly. Needless to say, this development has its own merits and demerits.

Let me see how health this development is. Primarily, specialization leads to extensive research and development in various fields. This will ultimately benefit the society in several different ways. Let me site an example. A management professional, say an MBA, can specialize in retail management. This particular area of management has great potential, and there will be great scope for his to furthering researches on consumer behaviours, their spending patterns, their likes and dislikes. Obviously, one will be able to offer great contributions in terms of personal success and national growth.

However, there is a flip side to it. Specialization may marginalize not-so-attractive areas of profession. This, in a social point of view, is not a health trend. Let us take the case of medical profession in which there are areas which do not look attractive to today’s ambitious medical professionals. General practicing of medicine does not look lucrative for many. Naturally, there is going to be great shortage for such practitioners. This will lead to great imbalance in the health indices of a society. This is dangerous.

To put it briefly, specialization in any profession is based on personal interests, market opportunities and prospects. So there is going to be specialization all the say. The merits and demerits of this trend makes me say s too much of anything is no good.
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