Ancient wisdom for Engineering Managers: Drucker and Judeo-Christian concepts for managing creativity

This paper discusses some of Peter Drucker's management concepts for ldquoknowledge workersrdquo and correlates them with ancient Judeo-Christian principles. Drucker emphasized contribution and service, morality and the value of the individual-all reflecting wisdom of the ancient principles- all essential for productive engineering creativity. The paper addresses the challenge to engineering managers resulting from the decline in cultural values.