Article by Charles Handy on businesses and the future. Handy's model for the future of organizations is one in which large businesses - elephants - thrive due to their support of independents - fleas. Managers will no longer be relevant or useful, and, increasingly, older workers will have to move outside of traditional organizations to continue working past their primes. Handy states that these developments will usher in the independent portfolio worker whose source of income originates from several different part-time positions across various organizations. Handy therefore concludes that traditional retirement-age laborers, and the idea of retirement itself, will need to adjust to accommodate changing work realities and new relationships between employees and their organizations.
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Article by Charles Handy on businesses and the future. Handy's model for the future of organizations is one in which large businesses - elephants - thrive due to their support of independents - fleas. Managers will no longer be relevant or useful, 2001; Charles Handy Papers; Box 15, Folder 7; 5 pages
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