Question #3 (correct)
In 1943, General Motors offered management theorist Peter Drucker the opportunity to study its politics and structure from the inside. Drucker was treated as a company employee; he was paid a full salary and granted unrestricted access to the company's resources. Three years later, Drucker published The Concept of the Corporation, which fellow management experts consider to be the handbook for successful corporation management. This work was unprecedented in its focus on the inner workings of a successful corporation from the vantage point of an insider. It portrayed General Motors as a pioneer of modern management and an example of a successful corporation with an extremely effective infrastructure and business model.
The Concept of the Corporation also acts as a treatise on social issues in the workplace, postulating that the corporation should be viewed as a human community and not simply a profit-generating machine. Drucker identifies the ideal business manager as one committed to professional rather than personal goals, acting not only in the interest of the corporation but also of society at large. Like doctors, lawyers, and other professionals, the manager must operate at an elevated level of adroitness and intelligence. The crux of a corporation's profitability lies in treating workers as valuable assets rather than as dispensable liabilities. According to Drucker, decentralization of power is essential to achieve this end and would make a corporation such as General Motors even more successful. Therefore, Drucker also advocates for granting workers greater control over factory life, guaranteed wages, and financial stakes in their companies.
The author's primary purpose is to
(A) disprove a controversial theory
(B) criticize a new school of thought
(C) qualify the findings of a research study
(D) describe an influential work
(E) evaluate a common practice
In 1943, General Motors offered management theorist Peter Drucker the opportunity to study its politics and structure from the inside. Drucker was treated as a company employee; he was paid a full salary and granted unrestricted access to the company's resources. Three years later, Drucker published The Concept of the Corporation, which fellow management experts consider to be the handbook for successful corporation management. This work was unprecedented in its focus on the inner workings of a successful corporation from the vantage point of an insider. It portrayed General Motors as a pioneer of modern management and an example of a successful corporation with an extremely effective infrastructure and business model.
The Concept of the Corporation also acts as a treatise on social issues in the workplace, postulating that the corporation should be viewed as a human community and not simply a profit-generating machine. Drucker identifies the ideal business manager as one committed to professional rather than personal goals, acting not only in the interest of the corporation but also of society at large. Like doctors, lawyers, and other professionals, the manager must operate at an elevated level of adroitness and intelligence. The crux of a corporation's profitability lies in treating workers as valuable assets rather than as dispensable liabilities. According to Drucker, decentralization of power is essential to achieve this end and would make a corporation such as General Motors even more successful. Therefore, Drucker also advocates for granting workers greater control over factory life, guaranteed wages, and financial stakes in their companies.
The author's primary purpose is to
(A) disprove a controversial theory
(B) criticize a new school of thought
(C) qualify the findings of a research study
(D) describe an influential work
(E) evaluate a common practice
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