Essays Tagged: "Charles Handy"

"The age of the knowledge worker". What does this mean, and how might control methods and strategies differ as the job and workforce change in this way.

by managementLess supervision on employees as they will be more knowledgeable in their tasks. Like Charles Handy's Zeus Power culture, all the workers will know exactly what their task is because the ...

(8 pages) 326 0 3.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The future of business organisation

The Future of Business OrganisationsCharles Handy is a writer and a broadcaster is well known for his views that he expresses in the boo ... ences in business and more importantly in life. In the third section of his book The Hungry Spirit, Charles has many ideas that suggest businesses have an underlying line that follows citizenship in l ... his happy "give give" world. Societies are taught to compete from day one, as the best will win. As Charles Darwin discovered, the world is based on a survival of the fittest and this forms the basis ...

(6 pages) 89 0 3.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Organisational culture, how it develops and how it is effected by external and internal forces.

sations, but offer no grounds for categorisation of the culture once the results have been obtained.Charles Handy (6) identified four main cultures that are easily identifiable in organisations today, ... htmlpages/ccrs/proceedings99/webster.htm(6) Gods of Management: The Changing Work of Organisations, Charles HandyPub Arrow Books Limited 2000 ISBN 009954888410(7) http://www.humanistsofutah.org/1993/A ...

(15 pages) 1183 0 4.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Explain how an understanding of the main theories on leadership can benefit managers of organisations. Assess the difference between leadership and management processes.

rstand that the manager's ability as a leader depends on the particular situation he is faced with. Charles Handy believed that leaders must consider:(a) their own preferred style;(b) their subordinat ...

(4 pages) 253 0 3.3 Sep/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication

Explain how organisational structure and culture relate to power and influence in the workplace.

e a pervasive context for everything we do and think in an organisation.(Laurie Mullins 2002, p.802)Charles Handy, who developed ideas from Harrison, stressed the importance of culture in the workplac ...

(6 pages) 354 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

What is Management? - The Perspective of Weber and Handy

must consider all the internal and external factors when it makes decisions. (Mullins)Max Weber and Charles Handy are two management thinkers who have had major impact on management thinking. Weber wa ... that is the called the contingency. The aim of the following is to discuss whether Max Weber's and Charles Handy's thoughts are relevant today in the UK, and if one of them is more relevant than the ...

(8 pages) 182 0 4.3 Mar/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Casualisation of Labour

d in general `flexible working lives' (Pollert, ibid 1988). Examples of this school are the work of Charles Handy (1984) and James Robertson (1985). It is true that part-time working can sometimes be ...

(8 pages) 78 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Management of Change: Charles Handy.

Task:The key theme of this module is change.What did Charles Handy mean when he commented that change could not be managed? If he was right what can a ma ... ent of organizational change with a more detailed view of the ideas of the Irish management thinker Charles Handy.Organizational culture and changeCharles Handy has written some of the most influentia ... ess of change and afterwards the work needs to be evaluated.HANDY'S view of the management of changeCHARLES HANDY mentions, 'to "manage change" is wishful thinking' (1999 p.292). According to him, cha ...

(9 pages) 250 0 5.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Three Characteristics of Effective Work Groups

often look forward to working together again In future. There are various ways of defining a group. Charles Handy (1993:150) defines group as 'any collection of people who perceive themselves to be a ...

(8 pages) 44 0 5.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Bureaucracy Theory of Management

n, job design and team work were now seen as more relevant within management thinking.Max Weber and Charles Handy are two management thinkers who have had major impact on management thinking. Weber wa ... that is the called the contingency. The aim of the following is to discuss whether Max Weber's and Charles Handy's thoughts are relevant today in the UK, and if one of them is more relevant than the ...

(7 pages) 24 0 0.0 Jun/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication