Week 12

Management: “The Governing Organ of All

Institutions of Modern Society”

Introduction

Drucker believed The Federalist Papers to be one of the two great contributions of America to Western thought (Practice of Management, 1954, p. 282), primarily because of the pluralism contained within these documents, which support the checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution. The three branches of government provide checks and balances on each other. In addition, there is the concept of federalism: all powers not specifically delegated to the federal government are left to the states. The concepts of federalism and pluralism were expressed in the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, ...

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