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- Title
Management: The Problems of Success.
- Authors
Drucker, Peter F.
- Abstract
The 50 years since the Academy of Management was founded in 1936 have been years of extraordinary growth for management. In 1936, apparently no professorship of management existed in the United States or, for that matter, anyplace else. Professorships of production management, yes; of sales management, yes; perhaps even of purchasing management, here and there. But general management was neither seen as a discipline nor taught as such. Fifty years ago the books on management could be counted on one's fingers--and those few were considered so esoteric that major company libraries did not even carry them. Today, professorships and courses in management abound in practically every institution of higher learning, even the community colleges. There are always a few management books on the best-seller list, some of which sell millions of copies. Indeed, management books have become so popular they are a favorite high school graduation present. Fifty years ago not one among the handful of true believers who founded the Academy of Management would have asserted that managing was a distinct form of work, let alone a profession. None would have said that management was--or even could be--a distinct field of knowledge and a genuine discipline. By now, of course, it is a truism. Growth of this magnitude always changes the very nature of a subject, whether that subject be a person; an organization, or even an idea. Such growth makes the subject come to mean something different. And success of this magnitude always creates its own problems. The problems of success are always surprises, quite different from the problems confronted earlier, surmounted earlier, solved earlier. Drucker's article covers both the changing meaning of management and the problems that have come with its success.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL management; MANAGEMENT education; MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT literature; BUSINESS enterprises; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; BUSINESS school curriculum; BUSINESS schools; PROBLEM solving; PLURALISM; ORGANIZATIONAL research; SOCIAL responsibility of business
- Publication
Academy of Management Executive (08963789), 1987, Vol 1, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
0896-3789
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/AME.1987.4275874