Management / Peter F. Drucker.
By: Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand).
Contributor(s): Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand). An introductory view of management.
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658.4 Managing in turbulent times / | 658.4 The professional manager / | 658.4 Organization theory and design / | 658.4 Management / | 658.4 Information systems through COBOL / | 658.4 Success in commerce / | 658.4 Bringing women into management / |
This ed. originally published: as 'An introductory view of management'. New York : Harper's College Press, 1977. - Full ed.: published as 'Management'. New York : Harper and Row ; London : Heinemann, 1974.
Bibliography: p. 552-557. - Includes index.
Introduction: Management and manager defined (with a note on the history of management) -- Part One: Business performance -- The dimensions of management -- Managing a business: The Sears story -- What is a business? -- Business purpose and mission -- The power and purpose of objectives -- Strategies, objectives, priorities and work assignments -- Strategic planning: The entrepreneurial skill -- Part Two: Performance in the service institution -- The multi-institutional society -- Why service institutions do not perform -- The exceptions and their lessons -- Managing service institutions for performance -- Part Three: Productive work and achieving worker -- The new realities -- What we know (and don't know) about work, working and workers -- Work and process -- Controls and tools -- Worker and working: theories and reality -- From personnel management to the leadership of people -- Part Four: Social impacts and social responsibilities -- Social impacts and social problems -- The limits of social responsibility -- Business and government -- The ethics of responsibility -- Part Five: The manager's work and jobs -- Why managers? -- Design and content of managerial jobs -- Developing management and managers -- Management by objectives and self-control -- From middle management to knowledge organization -- The spirit of performance -- Part Six: Managerial skills -- The effective decision -- Managerial communications -- Controls, control and management -- The manager and the budget -- The manager and the management sciences -- Part Seven: Managerial organization -- Structures and strategies -- Work- and task-focused design -- Result- and relations- focused design -- The innovative organization -- Top management and board -- Organizational conclusions -- Conclusion: The manager of tomorrow.
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Peter F. Drucker has been Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California since 1971.