Mission Chapter - Management Mission, Responsibility, Practice

Author: (American) Peter Drucker
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This book condenses Peter Drucker's decades of knowledge, experience, and management insights, with its concise and succinct title revealing the essence of management—mission, responsibility, and practice. In the "Mission" section, it examines management from an external perspective, studying the scope of management's mission and its necessary conditions in various aspects. In the "Practice" section, it shifts to discussing the work of organizations and management techniques, and in the "Responsibility" section, it explores the tasks, structure, and strategy of senior management. This book integrates the ideas from several of the author's works, serving as a crystallization of his decades of management experience, reflections, and thoughts, as well as a summary, organization, generalization, and elevation of his previous relevant arguments. It is regarded by academia as a systematic management manual for managers (business enterprises and institutional organizations) and a systematic textbook for students and those aspiring to management careers. The book systematically explores and reveals issues such as business performance, the performance of service organizations, effective work and achieving employees, social impact and social responsibility, the work of managers, management skills and organizational management, the tasks and organization of senior management, strategy and structure, among others. The most important and unique contribution of management in the 20th century was increasing the productivity of manual labor by 50 times. In the 21st century, the contribution management can make is to enhance the productivity of knowledge work and knowledge workers. Therefore, management is a noble mission. Management requires setting eight goals: marketing, innovation, human resources, capital resources, material resources, productivity, social responsibility, and profit. These eight goals should achieve three types of balance. The focus of management is to make work productive and employees achieve a sense of accomplishment. Management needs to be supported by social impact and social responsibility. The book systematically explores and reveals issues such as business performance, the performance of service organizations, effective work and achieving employees, social impact and social responsibility, the work of managers, management skills and organizational management, the tasks and organization of senior management, strategy and structure, among others. The most important and unique contribution of management in the 20th century was increasing the productivity of manual labor by 50 times. In the 21st century, the contribution management can make is to enhance the productivity of knowledge work and knowledge workers. Therefore, management is a noble mission. Management requires setting eight goals: marketing, innovation, human resources, capital resources, material resources, productivity, social responsibility, and profit. These eight goals should achieve three types of balance. The focus of management is to make work productive and employees achieve a sense of accomplishment. Management needs to be supported by social impact and social responsibility.