Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60492 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Synopsis
Throughout a long and distinguished career, Charles Handy has spent much of his time observing organizations and the behaviour of the people in them. Based on this rich experience, "Inside Organizations" is Handy's personal anthology of twenty-one ideas which will change the way people see their world, and help them to organize it better. It contains anecdotes, commentary and questions which challenge the reader and help them apply each idea to their particular situation whether they work in a large corporation, a school, a hospital, or a restaurant. Light-hearted yet profound, this Penguin edition of "Inside Organizations" will have a broad general appeal, complementing Handy's outstandingly successful work "Understanding Organizations".

Customer Reviews

Inside Organisations Review
If you’re looking for a business book that shows you how to run your accounts and stuff, this is not for you. Instead this is a fantastic book about organizing you staff structure within businesses and within basic family life. The book goes into details about motivation and after reading this book it makes you understand what you really want out of your job and how to go about getting it.

Also this book goes into details about how people see you at work and how you see other people’s ways of thinking.

Overall this book is ideal for people wanting to understand how to get the best out of themselves and there jobs and also its ideal for employers to understand how to manage there staff and what motivates them in there jobs.

Interesting and Accessible
Of all the books I have read by management guru Charles Handy, this has to be the most interesting and accessible. The book consists of twenty-one chapters, each illustrating a different management concept or idea. There are some old favourites like the 'Inside Out Doughnut' and the 'Johari Window' and some new ideas too (new to me anyway!) such as 'Marathons or Horse Races'. Each concept is simply and entertainingly explained but what I found really useful was the 'Questions for thinking and talking about' section at the end of each chapter. This section really encourages you to think about what you've read and picks out key points for discussion or simple exercises. I also liked the anecdotes in each chapter as relating a concept to a real-life situation makes it much easier to understand. This book is an ideal introduction to the work of Charles Handy and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the way that organisations work - it is certainly not just for managers. Just one criticism really - the book is not long enough!