The Public Role of Management.

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In conclusion, management is a differentiated role and a key one in industrial civilization. It performs the systemic role of communication-center, decision-center, and change agent. Its role is functional deriving its power more from competent performance than from legal right. Concomitant with its economic functions, it has a social role which establishes certain social responsibilities to facilitate human progress. In fulfillment of its social responsibilities, management seeks to caltivate social values, to develop each person fully, and to encourage cooperative systems having optimum free choice and rational means for value determination. Within the firm, management's responsibility for the cooperative system is primary; outside the firm, it is a pluralistic power influencing the cooperative system. Within its own organization, management synthesizes, values and science into a productive work system. In a business it produces economic gain while building social values, rather than at the expense of them.

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