Article by Charles Handy on using new language in business organizations, and the duty of business organizations to be communities in society. Handy begins the article discussing how a free population does not relish the thought of being tools to organizations. Given this reality, Handy recommends an overhaul in the way language is used in order to reshape thinking on organizations, suggesting the language of polity as the recommended course and how a public corporation should now be regarded as a community, rather than a piece of property. He proceeds to describe the importance of the Citizen Contract model and how organizations, functioning as a community, should be responsible to their members for their future, rather than their shareholders. Handy goes on to discuss the individual components of the new citizen organization and how it should be based on democratic political models in the real world.
Handy, Charles B Handy, Elizabeth Organization theory Organizational behavior Organizational change
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Article by Charles Handy on using new language in business organizations, and the duty of business organizations to be communities in society, 1998; Charles Handy Papers; Box 15, Folder 2; 3 pages
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