{"id":484,"date":"2006-07-26T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2006-07-18T19:29:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T03:29:06","slug":"peter-drucker-on-the-manager%e2%80%99s-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Peter Drucker on the Manager\u2019s Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in\"><strong>What is the manager\u2019s Job?<\/strong>  It is to direct the resources and efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results.  This sounds trite \u2013 and it is.  But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to \u201cproblems\u201d rather than to opportunities, and secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimum impact on results.  ((Drucker, Peter, June 12, 2006.  \u201cPeter Drucker on Managerial Courage.\u201d  HBS Working Knowledge.  Retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/\">http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu<\/a> on June 21, 2006.))<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Why is this important and what does it have to do with HR?  The parallels are obvious.  In non-strategic HR organizations, huge amounts of time are spent on ER issues that are clearly reactionary.  Very little time is spent on forward thinking and proactive planning activities.  Even in strategic HR organizations, there is difficulty for HR practitioners to make the connection between the strategic goals and the tactical plans \u2013 and these tactical plans again often turn into reactionary activities.  It\u2019s actually a rare manager or HR practitioner who is able to direct resources and time to active management of talent, rewards, and other manifestations of strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Again I\u2019ll harp on the recruiting function.  Except for the best organizations, reactionary filling of un-vetted job requisitions is pervasive.  While some organizations do have some controls in place to manage staffing requests, other organizations hide behind the concept that \u201cthe business needs us to react quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Drucker stresses that the function must \u201cdirect the resources and efforts of the business toward opportuntities for economically significant results.  I\u2019d argue that for HR, these resources should be directed toward opportunities for advancing the strategy.  (these might be one and the same as the strategy should have the end result of advancing the bottom line).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Tomorrow \u2013 I\u2019ll talk about how Drucker defines the core problem causing managers to incorrectly aim their managerial focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the manager\u2019s Job? It is to direct the resources and efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite \u2013 and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","category-workforce-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}