Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations - Hardcover

Handy, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875846718 ISBN 13: 9780875846712

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 1996

Synopsis

A collection of essays on the changing organizational environment addresses the need for more flexibility in management and more freedom for employees to work creatively

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Handy is an author and broadcaster living in London. He is a Fellow at the London Business School where he was a professor for many years. His books have sold over one million copies around the world. He has been, in his time, an oil executive, a business economist, a professor, and Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts.

From Library Journal:

In this collection of essays, the British management consultant, social philosopher, and author of The Age of Unreason (LJ 11/15/90), The Age of Paradox (McGraw-Hill, 1994), and Gods of Management (Oxford Univ., 1995) brings together 35 short pieces that reflect his musings on the changing and uncertain world of the future. Handy, who is one of the most graceful and articulate writers on the business scene, discusses some of his favorite themes. These include his belief that federalism will be the organizational structure of the future and that individuals will ultimately have a portfolio of jobs rather than a single career or profession, and the importance of allowing greater freedom for the individual employee. This work is an excellent introduction to this important business and social commentator and is highly recommended for all major collections.?Robert L. Logsdon, Indiana State Univ. Lib., Indianapolis
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0875846718
• ISBN 13: 9780875846712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 221