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COMPARISON OF CHARLES HANDY AND MICHEAL PORTER
Introduction
In the modern age, when nature of management science is changing
rapidly, ideas and work of few are helping the organizations and
individuals to cope with these changes. They are the people who laid
the foundation of modern management studies, and are known as
management gurus. Among the few top management gurus Charles Handy and
Michael Porter are the one who had the lasting influence on management
thought and writing. Both are unique in their own fields in many ways.
My aim is to compare and contrast the ideologies, work, and style of
these two leading management gurus.
Comparison & Contrast
Charles Handy is an eminent management guru who has delivered
insightful and humorous analysis of the management task for many years
.He has developed great thinking and writing on management, arts,
culture, business ethics. His writings are inspiring - philosophical,
passionate, lively, enlightening Refreshing, thought-provoking,
challenging and interesting to read. It gives inspiration, arguments
and confidence to many of readers who are feeling beleaguered by the
new priorities and agendas facing the arts and management sciences
.Charles Handy style is informative, readily accessible, and peppered
with personal anecdote and reflection.
Many other management thinkers create new models based on empirical
research and popularize them as their masterwork but Handy’s research
is based on his personal experiences, assessment and observations. He
started with his first book, Understanding Organizations (1976,
revised 1991) and later in his other book GODS OF MANAGEMENT: THE
CHANGING WORK OF ORGANISATIONS (1978) he used Greek gods in order
to explain his view in a more simplified form, by doing this he earn a
unique style of writing in management literature.
In the 1980's he developed his thinking and writing skills , about
modern style of living and working, which he explain in his famous
book The Age Of Unreason and The Future Of Work(1989), which pioneered
new ideas about the value of knowledge and self-determination. Handy's
message is that we will not survive unless we respond to the radical
way in which the world is changing. Handy was one of the first to
identify the end of 'careers for life'. His book, jointly written with
John Constable, The Making Of Managers in 1988, criticized the current
management style adopted by managers, and advocated radical
improvements to, UK management standards, which gave rise to the
Management Charter Initiative (which eventually choked on its own
bureaucracy). In the 1990's he focused increasingly on ethical and
philosophical issues for business and society, as reflected in his
collection of observations, like in his article Waiting For The
His conclusion, life is not fair. Boobie Miles, for example, is a High School student who has dedicated his life to football.... ... middle of paper ... ...
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