Article by Colin Chinery on Handy's solutions to fill the emptiness void in the workplace. Chinery highlights Handy's observations on how changes in the organizational world have forced many employees to move outside the traditional organization for employment and livelihood. He notes that Handy's remedy for such unfortunate changes has been organizational smallness, a call for a superpersonal moral order, and the substitution of the individual and group in place of a narrow emphasis on profit. He proceeds to underscore how Handy's work, specifically as evidenced in The Empty Raincoat, calls attention to various paradoxes and how they must be accepted for contemporary living, in addition to the necessity for "reverse delegation" in organizations. Since Handy predicts that government will have little to do with such necessary changes, Chinery highlights Handy’s belief that changes must occur at the individual and collective level in our corporate and non-profit structures.
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