That management is the specific organ of the business enterprise is so obvious that it tends to be taken for granted.
管理层是企业的一个具体器官,这个现象由于太过明显,常常被视为理所当然。
But it sets management apart from all other governing organs of all other institutions.
但是企业管理和其他所有机构的治理机制都不同。
The Government, the Army or the Church - in fact, any major institution - has to have an organ which, in some of its function, is not unlike the management of the business enterprise.
政府、军队或教会——事实上任何重要机构——都必须具备治理机制,其部分功能和企业管理十分类似。
But management as such is the management of a business enterprise.
但是本书所探讨的管理属于企业管理的范畴。
And the reason for the existence of a business enterprise is that it supplies economic goods and services.
而企业之所以存在,是为了提供商品和服务。
To be sure, the business enterprise must discharge its economic responsibility so as to strengthen society and in accordance with society's political and ethical beliefs.
企业必须履行经济责任,以促进社会发展,并遵循社会的政治信念和伦理观念。
But these are (to use the logician's term) accidental conditions limiting, modifying, encouraging or retarding the economic activities of the business enterprise.
但是,如果套用逻辑学家的说法,这些都属于会限制、修正、鼓励或阻碍企业经济活动的附带条件。
The essence of business enterprise, the vital principle that determines its nature, is economic performance.
企业的本质,即决定企业性质的最重要原则,是经济绩效。
- management 管理层
- specific organ 具体器官
- business enterprise 企业
- obvious 明显
- take for granted 被视为理所当然
- set apart from 不同,区分开
- governing organ 治理机制
- institution 机构
- Government 政府
- Army 军队
- Church 教堂
- in fact 事实上
- major 重要的
- function 功能
- not unlike 十分类似(不是不像,双重否定表示肯定,起强调作用)
- reason 原因
- existence 存在
- supply 提供
- economic goods 商品
- service 服务
- to be sure (承认属实)诚然,固然,无可否认
- discharge 履行
- economic responsibility 经济责任
- so as to 以便;为使
- strengthen society 促进社会发展
- in accordance with 遵循
- political 政治的
- ethical 伦理的
- belief 观念
- logician's term 逻辑学家的说法
- accidental condition 附带条件
- limit 限制
- modify 修正
- encourage 鼓励
- retard 阻碍
- economic activity 经济活动
- essence 本质
- vital principle 重要原则
- determine 决定
- economic performance 经济绩效
本文内容来源参考书籍《管理的实践》
The Practice of Management
Peter F. Drucker
* 本书为第一部从实际执行层面立论的管理学书籍,第一部兼顾管理现有企业和创新未来企业的著作
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