Strategic Management for People-Centered Development

摘要

The paper briefly examines: (1) the implications for management of the current period of global social transformation; (2) the emergence of the strategic organizational form, or a total institutional capacity for strategic action, among the largest and most successful corporate enterprises; (3) parallel advances in the theoretical and methodological bases of management for Third World development; and (4) the growing pressures for de-bureaucratization within the broader field of public administration. The basic argument developed is that, while bureaucratic organizational forms provided the unifying model for both public and private sector management in the industrial era, the strategic organization is emerging as the model of choice. The strategic organization represents both a response to necessity and a proactive commitment to the ideal that the purpose of organization is to serve the needs of people while facilitating the human growth of all participants.