Peter Drucker Quotes
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
Drucker, Peter F. Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. Harper & Row, 1973.
This was praise indeed as Wellman was generally very conservative.
Cannon was expelled from the Russian controlled American Communist Party for supporting the views of Leon Trotsky who the Russian communists assassinated.
Vladimir Lenin
Roosevelt shocked the conservative members of his own party with this statement. Labor unions were not then an accepted concept in American society. Anti trust legislation and enforcement was in its infancy and companies in an industry commonly conspired as to price fixing, labor negotiations and market share allocations. TR had a scrupulous sense of fairness and equity.
The act gave unions rights of organization which they had not had before in America, but few critics ever characterized it in the over the top rhetoric which was characteristic of Nixon in his early political years.
At the time, most company owners and managers refused to bargain collectively with employee elected organizations. Hoover was then an exceptionally modern business person who realized the importance of good working relations between management and labor and advocated collective bargaining. However, as he got deeper into partisan politics, he backed off urging this. Nationally, in the 1960s collective bargaining had become an instrument of basic sound management, but more and more managements returned to simply refusing to bargain with employee organizations and instead strengthened their managers and supervisors and adopted (by choice and by government regulation) more and more modern, healthy, safe, efficient and attractive working conditions and policies. By the 21st century, labor unions and employee organizations had lost their attractiveness while managers were more attentive to workers and there were very few private companies engaged in collective bargaining.
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the founder of modern management".
