Be calm, taking time at work as representative (10)
I believe the answer is:
emblematic
'representative' is the definition.
('emblematic' can be similar in meaning to 'representative')
'be calm taking time at work' is the wordplay.
'taking' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'at work' indicates an anagram.
'be'+'calm'+'time'='becalmtime'
'becalmtime' is an anagram of 'EMBLEMATIC'.
'as' is the link.
(Other definitions for emblematic that I've seen before include "Symbolic" , "representative symbol" , "Symbolical" .)