The practice of management / Peter F. Drucker.
By: Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand).
Material type: BookPublisher: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994Description: viii, 399 p. ; 24cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0750619104.Subject(s): ManagementDDC classification: 658Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 658 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016811 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A study of business efficiency which charts the structure of business management, its goals and responsibilities.
Originally published: 1955.
Bibliography: p. 387-389 - Includes index.
The nature of management -- The role of management -- The jobs of management -- The challenge to management -- Part I: Managing a business -- The sears story -- What is a business? -- What is our business - and what should it be? -- The objectives of a business -- Today's decisions for tomorrow's results -- The principles of production -- Part II: Managing managers -- The Ford story -- Management by objectives and self-control -- Managers must manage -- The spirit of an organization -- Chief executive and board -- Developing managers -- Part III: The structure of management -- What kind of structure? -- Building the structure -- The small, the large, the growing business -- Part IV: The management of worker and work -- The IBM story -- Employing the whole man -- Is personnel management bankrupt? -- Human organization for peak performance -- Motivating to peak performance -- The economic dimension -- The supervisor -- The professional employee -- Part V: What it means to be a manager -- The manager and his work -- Making decisions -- The manager of tomorrow.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Introduction: the nature of management
- Managing a business
- Managing managers
- The structure of management
- The management of worker and work
- What it means to be a manager
- Conclusion: the responsibilities of management
- Selected bibliography
- Index
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Peter F. Drucker has been Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California since 1971.