A Drucker Miscellany
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A DRUCKER MISCELLANY PETER STARBUCK lulu.com i This book was part of the research for the award of a Doctor of Philosophy Degree to The Open University Business School The Open University Walton Hall MILTON KEYNES Buckinghamshire MK7 6AA OU Ref: R 520 1357 THIS IS VOLUME 3 IN A SERIES OF 3 Supervisors: Emeritus Professor of International Management Derek S Pugh ACSS Emeritus Professor Andrew W J Thomson OBE (For Part) Examiners: Internal: Dr Geoff R Mallory External: Professor Ken Starkey, Professor of Management and Organisational Learning Nottingham University Business School Published by Peter Starbuck Copyright Dr Peter Starbuck 2012 This volume published in 2015 Peter Starbuck asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work ISBN No: 978-1-326-06874-5 ii Printed by lulu.com This volume is dedicated to Andrew Thomson and Derek Pugh who died within a month of each other, Andrew on 26 December 2014 and Derek 29 January 2015. I am indebted to them for their patience and guidance in assisting me to achieve my PhD. iii Other Books by Peter Starbuck: Drucker’s European Influences (Volume 1 in this series) Drucker’s MbO (Volume 2 in this series) Peter F Drucker - The Landmarks of His Ideas. How Nature Managed First (Your First Book On Management- Participant’s Workshops) Business Thinkers Interactive (An interactive prepared for the Open Learn at The Open University) http://www.open.edu/openlearn/money-management/management/leadership-and- management/leading/business-thinkers. iv Contents DRAMATIS PERSONAE OF 110 PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE CHRISTIAN GOD, 1 WHOM DRUCKER CONSIDERED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS MANAGEMENT IDEAS UP TO AND INCLUDING HIS THE PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT (1954) PETER DRUCKER: THE FATHER OF MODERN MANAGEMENT: 189 A TRIBUTE TO EDWARD BRECH WITH INTERCHANGE ON THEIR FRIENDSHIP 204 FROM DRUCKER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE. BRECH WAS HIS ACCOMPANYING HOST. THIS SECTION ALSO INCLUDES BRECH’S GUARDIAN OBITUARY. PROFILE OF JOHN WILLIAM HUMBLE AND HIS RECOLLECTION OF WORKING 216 WITH DRUCKER INCLUDING DRUCKER’S CONFIRMATION, TOGETHER WITH HUMBLE’S GUARDIAN OBITUARY. JOSEPH JURAN OBITUARY PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN 223 DRUCKER CITATIONS: IS A COLLECTION OF 180 CITATIONS THAT ARE DRUCKER 224 CONNECTED INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES HOW DRUCKER’S MbO BECAME HOSHIN KANRI 404 BIBLIOGRAPHY 433 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PETER DRUCKER’S PRIMARY LITERATURE AND OF HIS 437 SIGNIFICANT BIOGRAPHERS (PREDOMINANTLY IN ENGLISH). INDEXES FOR THE END OF ECONOMIC MAN AND THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRIAL MAN. 440 NOT INDEXED IN ORIGINAL BOOKS AUTHOR’S PROFILE 460 NOTE: TO DATE 484 PAGES AND 128,500 WORDS. v INTRODUCTION A Drucker Miscellany is the concluding volume III in a trilogy of the core research for my PhD thesis, with some appropriate later additions which I hope is useful for lecturers, researchers and students to use or defer at their discretion. Volume I My thesis – The Formative European Influence That Shaped The Thinking Of Peter Ferdinand Drucker And How They Manifest Themselves In His Later Ideas (October 2007). This has been published as: Drucker’s European Influences (2012) lulu.com, and includes Later Reflections. Volume II Drucker’s MbO (2012) lulu.com The research for Volume I and II was completed by November 2004, a year before Drucker’s death, and they have been edited, with minor adjustments being made. Both have been published and are available from lulu.com. They are also available on free access at the British Library, at the Library’s Management and Business Studies Portal. This link will take you there: http://www.mbsportal.bl.uk/taster/subjareas/busmanhist/mgmtthinkers/druckerprofile.aspx vi CREDITS The foregoing ‘Credits’ have been produced as an acknowledgement of their guidance, encouragement, commitment and friendship that enabled my research to make a productive contribution. Sponsor: Edward Francis Leopold Brech, MBE was born on 26 February 1909 in Kennington, London, SE and died in Esher, Surrey on 22 September 2006. His father was Hungarian and his mother Bavarian. They chose his Christian names from those of European Emperors, in the hope that it would empower a successful life, which it did. Following grammar school, he won a place on a pilot scheme for a Degree in Humanities at London University that was sponsored by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark for trainee priests. However, after obtaining his BA in 1929 in four subjects, which included French and German, he decided that priesthood was not for him and spent the next three years progressing his career as an international fur and skin trader, and importer. He then rejected trading and commerce, because he believed that expediency prevailed over morals and joined the German Commercial School in London as a tutor, before being promoted to Principal in 1933. The school provided post-experience courses in English commerce for mature employer-sponsored German males. Simultaneously he obtained his BSc Economics (Honours) in 1932 from London University. By 1938, he had also graduated with Distinction in the Diploma qualifications of Britain’s only professional management organisation, The Institute of Industrial Administration. His outstanding performance (1937-1938) brought him to the vii attention of Lyndall Urwick, the Institute’s Chief Qualifications Assessor who, after an interview, sponsored him for the newly inaugurated full-time Research Project into Britain’s education and training for management under the direction of the powerful members of the British Management Council. The outbreak of war caused the project to be suspended and saw his transfer, at Urwick’s invitation, to become Urwick’s Personal Assistant and a Partner in Britain’s premium management consultants, Urwick, Orr and Partners. By June 1940, Urwick was seconded into government service, which left Brech to continue with his full-time career as a management consultant and his personal commitment to his research and management writing. As a result of his research and writing, what was later to be known as the management classic The Making of Scientific Management Volumes I (1949), II (1946), and III (1948) were produced. Volume I Thirteen Pioneers was written by Urwick, with Brech contributing some research and editing, while Volumes II and III were at Brech’s initiative and production. The volumes first appeared in Industry Illustrated as a series between 1940 and 1945. It was during this war-time period that, thanks to Brech’s voluntary efforts, the remnants of the British management profession were held together during World War II. In addition to his Urwick related work are other consequential books including Management, Its Nature and Significance (1946), which was the first British-produced analysis of management in practice. It remained in print until 1976. It was followed by The Principles and Practice of Management (1953) and later editions, of which he was the editor and contributor. It was a book that remained in print for over thirty years and sold one hundred thousand copies, as it was the main textbook for the national curriculum in management studies in Britain, and was also used in America by some management schools. His Organisation the Framework of Management (1957) was the first European book that detailed the ‘delegation’ of management responsibilities. viii These three books were selected for translation into Italian, Spanish and Japanese. During his work, he has met many of the British management pioneers and those from overseas as, Hopf, Mayo and Lillian Gilbreth together with his own contemporaries, such as Diebold, Humble and Drucker. The latter he met regularly during Drucker’s lecture tour commitments in London during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1965, he left Urwick, Orr and Partners to join the Government Construction Industry Training Board as its first Chief Executive. Such was its success that, of the twenty- three boards launched, today it is one of only two that remains in operation. From 1971 until 1975, he was Chairman of Certex Limited, the Yorkshire-based general engineering and plastic assemblies business, and in 1974 he co-founded the London- based firm Executive Leasing. As a provider of temporarily hired executives, it was the first organisation of its type in Britain and the forerunner of what has now become ‘interim management’. Urwick’s death on the 5 December 1983 came as a sharp reminder of the promise that Brech had made to himself in 1941 to write the history of British management. He had already made a pact with his wife that when he retired he must always have a worthwhile project. At seventy-six years of age, he commenced his ‘project’ – The Brech Management History Research Project – which by April 2002, had been published in five volumes with 3,557 pages as The Evolution of Modern Management in Britain 1832-1979. Part of his project was submitted as a PhD dissertation to the School of Management at The Open University. As the award was made in April 1994, the presenter remarked that ‘obtaining a doctorate at eighty-five years of age was an uncommon achievement!’ But Brech’s academic career has not stopped here because in ix March 2005 he was awarded a Doctor of Letters from The Open University Business School for his contribution to Management History. In 1961 he was elected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Management, being the second Briton elected following Urwick’s election of 1959 – Brech also received the James Bowie Medal from the Institute of Management in 1955. He was an Honorary Research Fellow and the initiator of the Management History Research Group at The Open University Business School, the other founder members being Andrew Thomson, John Eveligh Boulton, Jim Roxburgh and Derek Pugh. Launched ten years ago, its aim is to persuade business schools to introduce the history of management as part of their MBA syllabus.