Management
By: Peter F. Drucker, with Joseph A. Maciariello.
Contributors: Maciariello, Joseph A.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780061252662
Subjects: Management
Description: The essential book on management from the man who invented the discipline now completely revised and updated for the first time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-549) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the revised edition of Management: Tasks, Responsibilities; title: Preface; title: Introduction: management and managers defined; title: Management as a social function and liberal act; title: The dimensions of management; title: Management's new realities; title: Management's new realities Part I - Knowledge is all; title: Management's new realities part II - New demographics; title: The new realities Part III - Future of the corporation and the way ahead; title: Management's new paradigm; title: Business performance; title: The theory of business; title: The purpose and objective of a business; title: Making the future today; title: Strategic planning: the entrepreneurial skill; title: Performance in service institutions; title: Managing service institutions in the society of organizations; title: What successful and performing nonprofits are teaching business; title: The accountable school; title: Rethinking "reinventing government"; title: Entrepreneurship in the public-service institution; title: Productive work and achieving worker; title: Making work productive and the worker achieving; title: Managing the work and worker in manual work; title: Managing the work and worker in knowledge work; title: Social impacts and social responsibilities; title: Social impacts and social responsibilities; title: The new pluralism: how to balance the special purpose of the institution with the common good; title: The manager's work and jobs; title: Why managers?; title: Design and content of managerial jobs; title: Developing management and managers; title: Management by objectives and self-control; title: From middle management to information-based organizations; title: The spirit of performance; title: Managerial skills; title: The elements of effective decision making; title: How to make people decisions; title: Managerial communications; title: Controls, control, and management; title: The manager and the budget; title: Information tools and concepts; title: Innovation and entrepreneurship; title: The entrepreneurial business; title: The new venture; title: Entrepreneurial strategies; title: Systematic innovation using windows of opportunity; title: Managerial organization; title: Strategies and structures; title: Work- and task-focused design; title: Kinds of teams; title: Result- and relation-focused design; title: Alliances; title: The CEO in the new millennium; title: The governance of the corporation; title: New demands on the individual; title: Managing oneself; title: Managing the boss; title: Realizing oneself - seven personal experiences; title: The educated person; title: Conclusion: the manager of tomorrow; title: Bibliography; title: Drucker annotated bibliography; title: About Peter F. Drucker; title: About the Peter F. Drucker Institute; title: Index.