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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.
Organizational structure is linked to organizational culture. Harrison described four types of culture: [85] Power culture – concentrates power among a small group or a central figure and its control radiates from its center like a web. Power cultures need few rules and little bureaucracy, but swift decisions can ensue.
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]
Charles Handy - organisational behaviour (1990s) Paul Harmon - management author; G. Charter Harrison (1881–1959) - Anglo-American management consultant and cost account pioneer; Sven A. Haugland (born 1948) - Norwegian organizational theorist; David L. Hawk; Igor Hawryszkiewycz (born 1948) - American computer scientist and organizational ...
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.
Charles Dederich, a gravel-voiced salesman and an alcoholic, built an empire on this harsh sentiment. After attending AA meetings in Southern California in the late 1950s, he grew to believe that they were not tough enough. The addict needed more than brotherhood. He needed to be challenged, and “to grow up.”
The first Global Peter Drucker Forum was held on 19 November 2009, marking what would have been the 100th birthday of Peter Drucker. [3] The forum included presentations by management philosopher and author Charles Handy, Kellogg School of Management professor Philip Kotler, economist Peter Lorange, economist and consultant Fredmund Malik, C.K. Prahalad of the Stephen M. Ross School of ...