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Charles Brian Handy, CBE (25 July 1932 – 13 December 2024) was an Irish author and philosopher who specialised in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he advanced are the "portfolio career" and the "shamrock organization" (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the "shamrock").
The term was invented by Irish academic and management author/philosopher Charles Handy. [1] He believed that people were the most important resource within any organisation, unlike F.W. Taylor who believed in tall hierarchical structures where workers were closely supervised. Handy believed in meeting the needs of workers through job enrichment.
Power culture – concentrates ... An entrepreneurial organizational culture is a system of shared values, ... Handy, Charles B. (1976). Understanding Organizations ...
A portfolio career comprises a variety of roles rather than one job at a single organisation. It can be a career that combines multiple paid and/or voluntary roles. The philosopher and organisational behaviourist Charles Handy popularised the "portfolio" concept [1] in works like his 1994 book The Empty Raincoat. [2]
However, organizational theorists such as Charles Handy and Henry Mintzberg both decry the lack of leadership and management training in the post WWII period. Handy in particular records how in his early career as an executive he was forced to rely on his formal academic training in Roman and Greek Classics as grounding for his management training.
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is a professional institution for management based in the United Kingdom.It was founded as the British Institute of Management (BIM) in 1947 or 1948, merged with the Institution of Industrial Managers (IIM) in 1992 to form the Institute of Management (IM), and gained a royal charter, and its present name, in 2002.
The book is a set of interviews with educationalists discussing their own education and include s Mike Cooley, Noam Chomsky, Seamus Heaney and Charles Handy among others. [36] [37] [38] Cooley and Quinn also collaborated on “Education for the 1990s”: Three Lectures Given at a Symposium in Radio Telefís Éireann, October 1989 (RTÉ 1989). [39]
It appears to be an excerpt that has amused one contributor, but its applicability in illustrating Handy's style is ponderable, and only by those who already know what that style is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.109.66.144 ( talk ) 17:32, 31 March 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]