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BOOK REVIEW: MANAGING IN THE NEXT SOCIETY BY: DRUCKER, PETER, F PUBLISHED BY: ELSEVIER, 2002; 2007

Saja A. Ibrahim, Rasha H Abbood

Volume: 10 Issue: 4 2020

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Drucker, Peter, F is a Writer, American management consultant, Author, Educator, as well as Influential thinkers on management, and he has a great contribution to the philosophical as well as practical foundations of modern business corporation; more over he nicknamed as the “Father of Modern Management”. Most of his writings dealt with how humans are organized within environments. Drucker, defined management in one of his books titled “The Principles of Management”; as a multi- purpose organ that manages business and manages managers as well with managing the workers and work, in this sense, he believed that effective mangers who must understand things like psychology, science, religion and other related things. He observed that often managers tried to take charge of everything; which is unbelievable to control, so advocated strongly for the decentralization of management through delegate tasks to empower the employees. Drucker, he is the first by 1950s who stated that employees were to be as assets to any organization not as liabilities. He taught that the most durable organizations were the ones who developed individuals both intellectually and morally; he developed the core foundation of his beliefs about business and society, he was more interested in the behaviors of individuals that led him to build a strong functioning society. Drucker, in 1943, started his own consulting business, which allowed him to work with figured companies like IBM and Procter& Gamble where he realized that the most obvious things for a business to achieve were innovation as well as marketing. That is why Drucker is known as a developer of management theories through his innovative ideas about business management; his theories reflect how important business environments are and the opportunity that managers have to create positive change and progress in the workplace.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i04.014

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