Charles Handy article exploring the changing organization of work. Specifically, Handy tackles the phenomenon of discontinuous change, that is, unanticipated changes that organizations are not prepared to meet. He begins by listing and describing assumptions about management that are ineffective, namely, that concentration alongside specialization results in efficiency, that labour is a cost, and that hierarchy is natural. He then proposes new terms that are more useful and effective, such as paying personnel fees and not wages, turning labour into an asset, and favoring a community-based, rather than an institution-based, approach to organizations. The positive implications for instituting these new approaches, according to Handy, are that workers would have flexi-lives, the marginalization of certain types of work priced out of existence, such as 'dirty jobs,' and acceptance of a by-pass theory of change, which would come from new institutions bypassing their dated predecessors.
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