Collaborating over Meanings in Management: Drucker Looks at Effectiveness

Abstract

In personal relationships, the clarification and negotiation of meanings is central. We live within a web of language and, by giving things names and through sharing and restructuring knowledge, we communicate with each other. In personnel management in organisations, therefore, the management of meaning lies at the heart of things. Such management entails the ordering and co‐ordinating of work done by ourselves and other people, as well as the mastery of complex social and technical patterns of thought and behaviour.

Citation

Hannabuss, S. (1987), "Collaborating over Meanings in Management: Drucker Looks at Effectiveness", Personnel Review, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 34-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055578