Drucker Examines Managerial Roles
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Business and Commerce Series
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Economics
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Business, Labor, Unions, Work, Employment
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: New York City
- Date: 1954
Article abstract: With skills combining philosophy, politics, and economics, Peter Drucker began defining and reassessing management in his The Practice of Management.
Summary of Event
By the early 1950’s, both popular and scholarly writing began reflecting the immense postwar changes in American life as the country entered an era of relative affluence. Marxist enthusiasms of the Depression-ridden 1930’s, as well as other predictions of national failure, were abating rapidly as it became clearer that Americans had escaped both class warfare and a...
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