Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading…
Transcript

Handy's Shamrock Organization

Advantages and Limitations

  • The core workers must be well paid and remunerated.
  • They are likely to also enjoy some degree of job security, be well motivated and highly productive.
  • The insourced workers will suffer from a lack of job security thereby negatively affecting their levels of morale.
  • However, they present flexibility for an organization and are easier to 'hire and fire'.

Insourced Workers (The Third leaf)

  • This group of workers are what Handy called the contingent workforce, consisting of temporary workers who are employed as and when they are required.
  • They tend to be paid by the hour or day for short periods of employment, so this helps to reduce labor costs for the firm.
  • The group of workers forms the flexible workforce for an organization and constitutes a greater proportion of the workforce for large companies.

Core Staff (The first leaf)

Outsourced Workers (The Second leaf)

  • This group consists of individuals that are not employed by the organization but are paid to complete particular and specialized tasks, such as advertising and computing.
  • Freelance workers, subcontractors, agencies and the self-employed are examples of outsourced workers.
  • They are hired by an organization for their skills and paid by results.
  • This consists of full-time professional workers who handle the daily operations of the business.
  • The group is a core of qualified professional technicians and managers.
  • They are crucial to the organization's operations, survival, and growth.
  • They are rewarded with high salaries and associated benefits.
  • Charles Handy believes that people are the most important resource within any organization.
  • Handy recommended that business ought to place greater emphasis on meeting the needs of workers.
  • Handy also emphasized the dynamic nature of change within organizations and the external business environment.
  • He came up with the concept of the shamrock organization.
  • The model gets its name from a shamrock plant (a three-leafed clover)
  • Handy argued that within a shamrock organization there should be three groups of core staff.
Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi