Charles Handy article on voluntary organizations and the future professional world. Handy notes that, in much of the professional world, executives are seeing the growth of the shamrock organization, or a three-part workforce. Alongside this development, Handy notes, has been the arrival of three new categories of employees, specifically, the professional core, the contractual fringe, and the flexible labour force. Handy proceeds to emphasize that he does not wish to see voluntary organizations shrink into shamrocks, but as the route to alternative work. He would like it to be an article of faith that everyone can be useful to someone else and retrained, and voluntary organizations, according to Handy, are the way to make those articles of faith into reality.
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