Article by Charles Handy on how a boring environment breeds boring employees, and how individual quality and style benefit workers by making their lives and efforts more meaningful and productive. Handy begins the article commenting on how the great advantage of art in Italy is that most of the paintings are still in the places for which they were commissioned--they are frescoes. Handy then reflects on what equivalents there now are to such artistic spaces and boardrooms and executive meeting rooms, arguing that, although we cannot all devise or afford stylish murals in corporate spaces, people can introduce values and expression in one way or another. Despite the cost associated with infusing sterile corporate spaces with more values and vibrancy, Handy suggests that the benefits outweigh the costs because efficient spaces rarely produce creativity and change, nor do they encourage sensitivity to the world they serve. Handy closes the article praising the fact that corporations are, at long last, waking up to the opportunities to create imaginative work environments.
Handy, Charles B Management today series Martini, Simone, 1283-1344 Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, 1285-approximately 1348 Bridgeman Art Library Handy, Elizabeth Italy Palazzo publico (Siena, Italy) Architecture Industrial design
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Article by Charles Handy on how a boring environment breeds boring employees, and how individual quality and style benefit workers by making their lives and efforts more meaningful and productive, 1997; Charles Handy Papers; Box 20, Folder 12; 1 page
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