management by objectives by peter drucker

• In Memoriam Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)

Peter F. Drucker, who was often called the world's most influential business scholar and whose thinking transformed corporate management in the latter half of the 20th century, died Nov 11 at his home in Claremont, California. Drucker was born in Vienna on Nov 19, 1909. He started his career in Economics by working for several German banks and export companies, and, at the same time, as economic journalist for Austrian and German newspapers and international banks in London. Drucker pioneered the idea of privatization and the corporation as a social institution. He coined the terms "knowledge workers" and "management by objectives". Although he was not always right with his visions, in the world of management gurus, there is no debate. An interview taken with Drucker in 1997 when he was...

• Journal for East European Management Studies
• Band 10 Nr. 4, Oktober 2005

• Der Kontrakt Der Arbeit Bei Wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen**

This paper approaches post-fordist work regulation and proposes to analyse the regulation of knowledge work from the perspective of contract relations, it discusses the concept and quantitative extent of knowledge work, and regards project-organisation as a characteristic feature of the post-fordist production mode. The article deals with contract relations of knowledge work within and beyond the standard employment conditions. Subsequently, the terms and perspectives of work regulation in the post-fordist era are examined. Finally the paper argues that the post-fordist mode of work regulation requires a strengthening of the rights of individuals and is characterised by metarules.

...Fordistische Managementprinzipien und Regulationsformen sind auf wissensintensive Di...-, Informations- oder Wissensgesellschaft (Drucker 1969; 1994; Bell 1973; Reich 1996), dass in entwic...Mit dem Management by Objectives (MbO) finden werkvertragsähnliche Elemente Eingan...

• Industrielle Beziehungen
• Band 11 Nr. 3, Juli 2004