“Business enterprise. . . has only one true resource: people. . .”

“Business enterprise (or any other institution) has only one true resource: people.

It performs by making human resources productive. It accomplishes its performance through work. To make work productive is, therefore, an essential function.

But at the same time, these institutions in today’s society are increasingly the means through which individual human beings find their livelihood, find their access to social status, to community and to individual achievement and satisfaction.

To make the worker achieving is, therefore, more and more important and is a measure of the performance of an institution. It is increasingly a task of management.”