Management energy—a conservation plan

Abstract

The preceding chapters have outlined a view of the problems which face managers in large industrial organisations and have pointed the way to some solutions. At the heart of the problem lies the place of industry in society. Industry exists to serve the needs of society and it is society which must in the end decide how it wants its industrial managers to spend their energies. Those energies can be used to create the material wealth that society needs and demands; at the moment they are being used by managers increasingly to try to ensure their own short-term survival in a situation of great turmoil and confusion.