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Who is the father of management?

The father of modern management is Peter Drucker.

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1. Biography

The modern management master Peter F. Drucker has made outstanding and profound contributions to the world. Due to his influence, he is respected as "the master among masters" and "the father of modern management". Drucker was born in Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1909 and was originally from the Netherlands. His father was an Austrian official in charge of cultural affairs and founded the Salzburg Music Festival. His mother was one of the first women in Austria to study medicine. Drucker grew up in a culturally rich environment. At that time, a new school of economics emerged in Vienna and made great contributions to the development of economic theory. These had an important influence on the formation of Drucker's later thoughts. Drucker was educated in Austria and Germany. At the age of 20, Drucker left Vienna and went to London to work as a journalist and an economist at an international bank, engaging in securities analysis. He received a doctorate in law from the University of Frankfurt in 1931. In 1937, he immigrated to the United States because he was dissatisfied with the conservative political atmosphere in Europe. Since then, Drucker has devoted his life to teaching, writing and consulting. From 1942 to 1949, he served as professor of philosophy and political science at Bennington College. In 1942, he was hired as a consultant to General Motors, the world's largest enterprise at the time. In 1945, he founded the Drucker Management Consulting Company and served as its chairman. Later, in 1946, he edited the results of his experience into the book "The Concept of the Company" and published it, which provided a detailed and original analysis of the organization and structure of large enterprises. On November 6, 1954, the book "Management Practice" was published, which established management as a discipline and established his status as a management master. His book "The Effective Manager" published in 1966 has become a must-read classic for senior managers; his masterpiece "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practice" published in 1973 is a systematic book for business managers. Management Handbook, a systematic textbook for students studying management. Drucker's other works did not arouse interest until long after their publication. For example, in the 1960s, he proposed reducing organizational levels and streamlining the organizational structure. This view only became popular in the 1990s. In his book "People and Performance" published in 1973, he mentioned the social responsibility of managers and organizations in a broader sense, which is now gradually being accepted. Of the more than 30 books Drucker has published, half are not talking about management or economic issues, but analyzing larger-scale social transformation, deconstruction and integration, such as "Conservative National Theory and Historical Change" and "The End of Economic Man". In 1995, Drucker published "Innovation and Entrepreneurship". The whole book emphasizes that the current economy has transformed from a "managed economy" to an "innovative economy." On June 20, 2002, US President George W. Bush announced Peter Drucker as the recipient of that year's "Presidential Medal of Freedom", which is the highest honor an American citizen can receive. Drucker has published 30 major works, which have been translated into more than 20 languages ??and distributed in more than 130 countries and regions around the world, with sales of more than 6 million copies. So far, 12 of his works have been translated into Chinese and published.

2. Main works

"The End of Economic Man"-1939

"The Future of Industrial Man" Industrial Man)-1942

Concept of the Corporation-1946

The New Society-1950

"The Practice of Management"-1954

"America's Next Twenty Years"-1957

"Landmarks of Tomorrow" Tomorrow)-1957

Managing for Results-1964

The Effective Executive-1966

"The Age of Discontinuity"-1968

"Technology, Management and Society"-1970

"Men, Thoughts and Society" , Ideas and Politics)-1971

"Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" (Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices)-1973

"The Unseen" Revolution)-1976 (republished in 1996 as The Pension Fund Revolution)

People and Performance: The Best of Peter Drucker on Management)-1977

"An Introductory View of Management"-1977

"Adventures of a Bystander"-1978 (autobiography)

Song of the Brush: Japanese Painting from the Sanso Collection-1979

Managing in Turbulent Times-1980< /p>

"Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays"-1981

"The Changing World of the Executive"-1982

"The Last of All Possible Worlds" (novel, The Last of All Possible Worlds)-1982

"The Temptation to Do Good" (novel, The Temptation to Do Good)-1984< /p>

"Innovation and Entrepreneurship"-1985

"Frontiers of Management"-1986

"New Reality: The New Realities: in Government and Politics, in Economics and Business

, in Society and World View)-1989

"Managing the Nonprofit Organization: Principles and Practices" (Managing the Nonprofit Organization: Principles and Practices)-1990

"Managing the Future" (Managing for the Future: The 1990s and Beyond)-1992

"The Ecological Vision"-1993

"Post-Capitalist Society" -1993

"Managing in a Time of Great Change" -1995

"Drucker Looks at Asia: A Dialogue between Drucker and Nakauchi" ( Drucker on Asia: A Dialogue between Peter Drucker and Isao Nakauchi)-1997

"Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management"-1998

《21 "Management Challenges for the 21st Century" (Management Challenges for the 21st Century)-1999

"The Essential Drucker"-2001[1]

"The Next Society" "Managing in the Next Society"-2002

"A Functioning Society"-2002

"The Daily Drucker"-2004< /p>

"The Effective Executive in Action" (The Effective Executive in Action)-2006

3. Important concepts and concepts raised

(1) As the first The person who proposed the concept of "management". In today's world, it is difficult to find a thinker who is more leading the times than Drucker: in the early 1950s, he pointed out that computers would eventually completely change business; in 1961, he reminded the United States that it should pay attention to the development of Japanese industry. 20 years later, he was the first to warn that the East Asian country might fall into economic stagflation; in the 1990s, he was the first to explain the "knowledge economy".

(2) In 1954, Drucker proposed an epoch-making concept-Management By Objectives (MBO), which is the most important and most important concept invented by Drucker. It is an influential concept and has become an important part of contemporary management science. Perhaps the greatest advantage of management by objectives is that it enables a manager to control his or her own achievements. Self-control means greater motivation: a desire to do your best rather than half-heartedly. It means higher achievement goals and broader horizons. One of the major contributions of management by objectives is that it allows us to replace management by others with management by self-control.