What is Charles Handy's Shamrock Organization?

In his 1989 book, The Age of Unreason, Charles Handy looked forward to a new type of organization, the Shamrock Organization. 📘 Get the Book of the Course! The Nature of Organizations: A Management Courses Introduction This Kindle-exclusive eBook is for working managers, who need a broad-brush overview in a short format. However, students may find it a helpful precursor to your more detailed study. https://geni.us/bzHaVP The Age of Unreason: https://geni.us/rwY6Iz9 Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*. (See below for more details) The Nature of Organizations ======================= This video is part of course module number 6.1.2 Program 6: Managing within Organizations Course 1: The Nature of Organizations Section 2: Organizational Models Other videos in this section include: 🎬 Edgar Schein's Two Organizational Cultures -    • What are Edgar Schein's Two Organizational...   🎬 Henry Mintzberg's 4 plus 2 Organizational Types -    • Henry Mintzberg's 4 plus 2 Organizational ...   🎬 Charles Handy's Gods of Management -    • What are Charles Handy's Gods of Management?   🎬 Charles Handy's Federal Organization Model -    • What is Charles Handy's Federal Organizati...   🎬 Charles Handy's Triple-I Company -    • What is Charles Handy's Triple-I Company?   🎬 The Matrix Organization Model -    • Are Multinational Organizations Sacrificin...   🎬 Peter Senge's Learning Organization -    • What is Peter Senge's Learning Organization?   🎬 Adhocracy -    • What is the Adhocracy Organizational Model?   🎬 The Agile Organization -    • What is The Agile Organization?   🎬 Brian Robertson's Holacracy -    • What is Brian Robertson's Holacracy Organi...   🎬 Virtual Organizations -    • What are Virtual Organizations?   LESSON NOTES ============ In the late 1980s, Handy recognized the concept of a portfolio career. This is a career with lots of components, rather than one single ‘job’. It is a reality for many professionals. What Handy foresaw (and embraced for himself) was the emergence of this lifestyle for white collar, knowledge workers. This trend will enable what Handy describes as a Shamrock Company. The Shamrock Organisation With such flexible workers, Handy saw that organizations could no longer encompass all the functions they would need. In the ‘The Age of Unreason’, Handy originally described three leaves of what he called a Shamrock Organization. These three leaves surrounded a professional core of managers, technocrats, vital support staff, and a minimum of specialists. Together, they define the core competence of the business, and provide and manage its infrastructure. This professional core sets a framework of strategy, operational processes, and decision-making, within which the rest of the organization works. Everything else is provided by contracted workers: 1. outsourced services from specialist providers, 2. contracted independent professionals with highly specialized skills, and a 3. flexible, lower-paid workforce that can be brought in on short contracts and day-rates. RECOMMENDED EXERCISE In the 2020s, most organizations have something of the character of a Shamrock Organization. What elements (leaves of the shamrock) does your current organization make use of - and how? (3 MC CPD Points) DOWNLOADS =========== Free Resources CPD Tools - https://gum.co/MC-CPD Paid resources Management Courses Onboarding Kit - https://gum.co/MC-ObK ($3) RECOMMENDED READING ===================== Understanding Organizations https://geni.us/oB774Do Images of Organization https://geni.us/hrOemEs Inside Organizations: 21 Ideas for Managers https://geni.us/YwwL Gods of Management: The Four Cultures of Leadership https://geni.us/bpPeC5 Managers Need a Basic set of kit to do your job well. Here are my top recommendations: https://kit.co/MikeClayton/manager-s-... (the links are affiliated) Management Courses Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points =========================================================== You can record your Management Courses CPD points on our free, downloadable CPD record log. Download it at: https://gum.co/MC-CPD Each video has two levels of MC CPD points. For this video: If you simply watched the video, record 2 MC CPD points If you also carried out all of the recommended exercises, score a total of 5 MC CPD points ___ Note: Links to our book recommendations are affiliated through Amazon #Management #ManagementCourses #ShamrockOrganization