Drucker Challenge Essay Contest

Deadline: 15 July, 2012
Open to: students, junior managers, and entrepreneurs from around the world
Prizes: Money prize of € 1.000, publication of essays or Free participation in the 4th Global Peter Drucker Forum

The contest

The Drucker Challenge Essay contest, organized by Peter Drucker Society Europe and now in its 3rd year, is about to raise awareness among young people of the works and ideas of Peter Drucker and a management philosophy that puts the human being in its centre.
The contest is open to students, junior managers, and entrepreneurs from around the world who want to share their views on the changing structure and mindset of the workforce and the impact it will have on institutions and management.

Essays must have between 1.500 to 3.000 words and attempt to deploy your perspectives and experience that will be significant for an interested but primarily non-research oriented audience. Researchers are invited to participate in the official «Call for papers», co-organized by Peter Drucker Society Europe and Management Research Review (Emerald Group Publishing).

The title theme of this year’s Drucker Challenge is «Reinventing Work, Reinventing Organization» – a hot topic that will also be discussed at the 4th Global Drucker Forum in the context of Capitalism 2.0.

Rules

The contest is consisted out of three rounds. During the First Round, a panel of curators will evaluate and attribute a score to each entrant’s Essay made up of scores based upon the below-listed criteria during the period beginning on July 1, 2012 and ending on August 2, 2012

Judging criteria:

• A. Style, originality, passion for the theme
• B. Formal structure of the essay
• C. Logical coherence
• D. To what extent does the essay deal with Druckerian themes?
• E. How well does it address the theme of the 2012 contest?

The thirty (30) Essay submissions that receive the highest overall scores will qualify for the Second Round. In the Second Round, 10 out of the 30 entries will qualify for the Third Round as finalists.

In early September, the ten Finalists will be selected and notified by email. If a Finalist does not respond to the notification attempt within 4 days, then an alternate Finalist will be selected from among all eligible entries received based on the judging criteria described herein. Further, First Prize Winners and runners-up warrant that they are able to attend the public announcement on November 15, 2012. If one of them is unable to attend an alternate Finalist may be selected from among all eligible entries received based on the judging criteria described herein.

Competitors can see a list of winners by mid-September, 2012, visiting www.druckerchallenge.org.

Prizes