Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Social Impacts and Social Problems

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES—WHETHER OF a business, a hospital, or a university—may arise in two areas. They may emerge out of the social impacts of the institution. Or they arise as problems of the society itself. Both are of concern to management because the institution which managers manage lives of necessity in society and community. But otherwise the two areas are different. The first deals with what an institution does to society. The second is concerned with what an institution can do for society.

The modern organization exists to provide a specific service to society. It therefore has to ...