David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.3.2
And surely we will have to study and to use "mixed" structures rather than only the "pure," "one right organization," which organization theory——and largely also organization practice——still believes in.
One area in which research and study are particularly needed is the ORGANIZATION OF TOP MANAGEMENT.
Yet I doubt that anyone would assert that we really know how to organize the top management job, whether in a business, a university, a hospital or even a modern church.
There is, in other words, an enormous amount of work to be done in organizational theory and organization practice——even though both are the oldest areas of organized work and organized practice in management.
The pioneers of management a century ago were right. Organizational structure is needed. The modern enterprise——whether business, civil service, university, hospital, large church or large military——needs organization just as any biological organization beyond the ameba nerds strucure. But the pioneers were wrong in their assumption that there is——or should be——one right organization. Just as there are a great number of different structures for biological organizations, so there are a number of organization for the social organism that is the modern institution. Instead of searching for the right organization, management needs to learn to look for, to develop, to test.
The organization that fits the task.
——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century·Chapter1》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)