Consistency with professional norms

Understand-ability                           

                       Criteria                 Actions are comprehensible through being consistent with professional norms

                       Implications        The outsourcing profession, as a body, should pursue objectives and activities that are valued as appropriate, proper, and desirable by peer professions. To understand the outsourcing profession's objectives and activities, the peer group must first be able to “make sense” of them.

                                                     What are the complexities of the outsourcing profession that require 'sense-making' efforts, so that the outsourcing profession can be judged to be valuable, appropriate, proper and desirable, by the constituents whose opinions act to afford or withhold professional legitimacy?