In his 1989 book, The Age of Unreason, Charles Handy looked forward to a new type of organization, the Shamrock Organization.

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The Nature of Organizations
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This video is part of course module number 6.1.2
Program 6: Managing within Organizations
Course 1: The Nature of Organizations
Section 2: Organizational Models


Other videos in this section include:
Edgar Schein's Two Organizational Cultures - https://youtu.be/9C64CXJw83E
Henry Mintzberg's 4 plus 2 Organizational Types - https://youtu.be/JmvYcskjh3E
Charles Handy's Gods of Management - https://youtu.be/yClxu7dzmB4
Charles Handy's Federal Organization Model - https://youtu.be/69AYxCvT7m4
Charles Handy's Triple-I Company - https://youtu.be/gFRXiMkIg6k
The Matrix Organization Model - https://youtu.be/hJ9wbFgmtKM
Peter Senge's Learning Organization - https://youtu.be/k1k2h1l2VO0
Adhocracy - https://youtu.be/7QKm0Y3_Hr0
The Agile Organization - https://youtu.be/67NVUeFQMy4
Brian Robertson's Holacracy - https://youtu.be/hz3khhOLT5E
Virtual Organizations - https://youtu.be/Hsovj2jPNPA

LESSON NOTES
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In the late 1980s, Handy recognized the concept of a portfolio career. This is a career with lots of components, rather than one single ‘job’. It is a reality for many professionals.

What Handy foresaw (and embraced for himself) was the emergence of this lifestyle for white collar, knowledge workers.

This trend will enable what Handy describes as a Shamrock Company.

The Shamrock Organisation
With such flexible workers, Handy saw that organizations could no longer encompass all the functions they would need. In the ‘The Age of Unreason’, Handy originally described three leaves of what he called a Shamrock Organization.

These three leaves surrounded a professional core of managers, technocrats, vital support staff, and a minimum of specialists. Together, they define the core competence of the business, and provide and manage its infrastructure.

This professional core sets a framework of strategy, operational processes, and decision-making, within which the rest of the organization works.

Everything else is provided by contracted workers:
1. outsourced services from specialist providers,
2. contracted independent professionals with highly specialized skills, and a
3. flexible, lower-paid workforce that can be brought in on short contracts and day-rates.


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In the 2020s, most organizations have something of the character of a Shamrock Organization. What elements (leaves of the shamrock) does your current organization make use of - and how? (3 MC CPD Points)

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