Überblick
"(...) Peter Drucker discovered management as one of the most important societal functions, that is as the distinctive and generic moving force in all kinds of organizations for achieving purposes and objectives. Its task is to draft maps and plans, make the necessary decisions, organize the resources needed, educate and train people for the work to be done, control and adjust the ongoing implementation processes and finally take responsibility for the results. Peter Drucker used the word "management? in the broadest possible sense including its application to people and organizations alike, and also encompassing leadership and governance. This all-important function - although being in effect all the time wherever things worked - stayed largely unrecognized through the ages. Even though the people practicing the function of management have always been visible, the managerial function itself is basically invisible and therefore as such has remained undiscovered. Drucker, therefore, did not invent management, as many commentators say, but he discovered it and was the first to formulate management so as to make it learnable and partly also teachable. His
understanding of management was not just as a business function, but as a general societal function for every kind of organization - be it for business or non-business purposes - and he put it into the context of a "functioning society?. (...)"