Born in Vienna on November 19, 1909, Peter Drucker had a childhood that was characterized by a rich father who was an officer of the Ministry of Economy and an Austro-Hungarian mother who was a doctor. A lot of senior officials and politically influenced people considered Drucker's home as a meeting place for intellectuals, scientists, economists and learnt people. As a Doctor of Public and International Law, Drucker was passionate about literature and philosophy. Peter Drucker spent his life as a journalist specializing in economics.
At the age of 20, following a meeting with Hitler, he published texts explaining the need to oppose totalitarianism which was adhering to the conservative opposition of Nazism. In 1933, he emigrated to England, then to the United States where he became a U.S. citizen in 1943 at the beginning of the Second World War.
[...] all the problems related to the concept of management that he had invented. He suggests in the introduction to read independently each of the six chapters of his book and reason them accordingly. You can read the book depending on the position within your organization. The Father or the Pope of modern management developed a vision for the challenges of our time just to feed the cogitations of a decision maker with regard to questions like what is performance. How to improve productivity? [...]
[...] The stratification of the company is changed by the knowledge worker who through his specific knowledge makes it more competent for his work. The framework must know the expectations in terms of results; it must also develop the capacity to make efficient knowledge workers. The productivity of the knowledge worker will depend on how he will be guided, trained and informed about the mission and collects the results. To maintain and develop an efficient business, the manager must lead the change. [...]
[...] The information on the allocation of resources, which allows the manager to combine capital and efficient or above par workers (employees) (the scarcest resource). The manager needs information; he must arrange to transmit to perceive innovation and change, as knowledge workers will have to be pro-active. The productivity of knowledge worker The concept of productivity of the worker was actually initiated by Taylor in 1900, through scientific management of task analysis. It appears that knowledge is the result of skills acquired by performing simple and repetitive tasks with the idea of paying more than the production time work. [...]
[...] The idea of management as Drucker calls into question this model and the methodology that does not create change without first traditional bases of reasoning have been displaced and are integrated by the managers. Finally the combination of these fields of thought in this book shows how an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work is important, that man is a value for the business as long as managers adjust their organizational design productivity. To conclude, the approach of Drucker revisits the notion of time, economies of scale, the value added to [...]
[...] The book includes The new management paradigms Strategies - the new realities The change leader The challenges of information The productivity of knowledge worker The knowledge worker is an asset rather than an expense (cost) Summary of the book "The Future of Management" The new management paradigms This chapter talks about the scope of management in the production entity. The employee has built a superior knowledge to his task and he becomes a "knowledge worker." Management is a discipline in the world of business and is an interaction between human functioning and the company. [...]
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