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The practice of management / Peter F. Drucker.

By: Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994Description: viii, 399 p. ; 24cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0750619104.Subject(s): ManagementDDC classification: 658
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00016811
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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.

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