谢尔登管理的社会责任理论及其现实意义

On Oliver Sheldon's Social Responsibility of Management and Its Practical Significance

管理的社会责任问题,是谢尔登管理哲学思想的一个重要方面。立足于追问管理的终极目的和本性,谢尔登阐明了为什么工业管理必须承担社会责任的人性与社会双重根源。工业企业是人们合作的复杂形式,工业是共同体的一部分。工业管理作为一个整体的工业的代表,它对共同体必须承担正确地服务于共同体的需要的责任,对进入工业中的人们,必须承担正确培养他们的精神、发挥他们的个性才能的责任,同时,它还必须努力为人们提供较高的生活标准和最低限度的闲暇。谢尔登的上述思想,开拓了工业管理研究的社会整体优先的视野和历史主义方法,具有重要的历时性思想价值和鲜明的现实指导意义。

The social responsibility of management is an important aspect of Oliver Sheldon＇ s management philosophy, Based on the ultimate purpose and nature of management, Sheldon elaborates the double sources of why industrial enterprises must undertake the human nature and the society of social responsibility. Industrial enterprise is a complicated form of people＇ s cooperation and a part of common community. Industrial enterprise, being a representative of the entire industry, should take the needed responsibility for the common community, and shoulder the responsibilities for the workers in the industry to correctly cultivate their spirits and exert their individual competence. Meanwhile, it also must spare great efforts to provide a higher standard of living and a minimum degree of leisure for people. Sheldon＇ s theory mentioned above has broadened the horizon of social priority and the historicism method in industrial management research, which is of importantly diachronical ideological value and has sharp significance of practical guiding.