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Management doea not put then there* It 1* ft
responsibility of aanagcaent to oake It possible
for people to recognise and develop theee huaan
characteristics for theaaelvea*
It* The essential taek of management ie to
arrange organisational conditions and aethoda
of operation a© that people ©an athlete. their
•w* «®«la bast by directing their own efforta
toward organisational objectivea.
fMs la a process primarily, of ere a ting
opportunities, releasing potential* reading
obstacles, «neouraglng growth, providing guidance*
It la what Peter Druckar haa ealled 'management
fey objectives1 in contrast to management fey
control. It doea not involve the abdication
of aanagtasnt, the absence of leadership9 tha
lowering of standarda***
Frior to the advent of the Second World War* much man-
agement thinking was along the llnee expreased by Dlemert
, There la danger in carrying thla idea of de-
centralisation too far, because there are always
certain types of mm who when given an inch will
take a mile, and they are apt to aat themselves
up «* autocrats with all the despotlsa of tha
jmlar ©f Abyssinia unless advance restrictions
art «ade aa to their following the office, pro*
duotion-control, and personnel aethoda aat up
by the staff and functional authorities.*^
It appears fro* thla quotation that In actuality, Dleaer
la defeating his own argument, torn traditional deapotle
industrialist, labeled aa a "tycoon," "big bosa," and "aagnate,"
received the slang title because he publicly had a reputation
for teaping managerial power cxtreaely centralised,^
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Kirkpatrick, Thomas O. Decentralization of Managerial Authority, thesis, 1958; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc107985/m1/59/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .