Work For Human Beings

According to Peter Drucker, the well-known management consultant, educator, and author, a main task of management is to make individual workers productive and effective. Drucker points out that while this idea is relatively obvious, what isn’t as obvious is that tasks often need to be made “suitable for human beings” who have “a radically different [logic] from the logic of work.”

Everyone’s mind works differently, so as workers approach a task, they will approach it from different perspectives and with different ideas of how to tackle the project. A manager’s job is to make sure that workers understand the project objective, their roles and responsibilities, and the roles and responsibilities of others. Making work suitable for human beings (and not robots) takes coordination of different minds and clear communication.

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