Management, Revised Edition

  • 12h 33m
  • Joseph A. Maciariello, Peter F. Drucker
  • HarperCollins
  • 2008

There are very few writers of whom one can say they invented an entire field of study: Peter F. Drucker is one. “Management” as a concept literally did not exist until Drucker’s groundbreaking work. From Jim Collins to Jack Welch, every great theorist and practitioner of management has walked in Drucker’s footsteps.

And in 1974, with MANAGEMENT, he published the book that would come to define the field. In this seminal work, Drucker explored how managers--in the for-profit and public service sectors alike--can perform effectively. Examining management cases with a global eye, Drucker laid out the essentials of performance, and of how a manager interacts with their organization and the social and cultural environment in which they operate. For three decades, managers and students of business worldwide have relied on Peter Drucker to prepare themselves to meet the challenges of an ever-changing business environment. The result is a book that--while still a fundamental work--has also slipped substantially behind the current business climate.

Now Joseph Maciariello, Professor of Management at Claremont University’s Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and one of Drucker’s foremost students and protégés, has exhaustively revised and updated this book to meet the needs of the modern-day manager. Almost every page contains new and reworked material that reflects the thirty years of Drucker’s thinking and writing that postdated the original edition. Business examples that have now gone out of date have been reworked; commentary to explore and explain Drucker’s thinking and its applications has been added throughout. MANAGEMENT is ready at last to enter the twenty-first century and continue its reign as the must-read text for every serious student of the field.

About the Author

Peter F. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever. The author of more than twenty-five books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. Drucker passed away in 2005.

In this Book

  • Management, Revised Edition
  • Introduction to the Revised Edition of Management—Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Management and Managers Defined
  • Management as a Social Function and Liberal Art
  • The Dimensions of Management
  • Knowledge Is All
  • New Demographics
  • The Future of the Corporation and the Way Ahead
  • Management’s New Paradigm
  • The Theory of the Business
  • The Purpose and Objectives of a Business
  • Making the Future Today
  • Strategic Planning: The Entrepreneurial Skill
  • Managing Service Institutions in the Society of Organizations
  • What Successful and Performing Nonprofits Are Teaching Business
  • The Accountable School
  • Rethinking “Reinventing Government”
  • Entrepreneurship in the Public-Service Institution
  • Making Work Productive and the Worker Achieving
  • Managing the Work and Worker in Manual Work
  • Managing the Work and Worker in Knowledge Work
  • Social Impacts and Social Responsibilities
  • The New Pluralism: How to Balance the Special Purpose of the Institution with the Common Good
  • Why Managers?
  • Design and Content of Managerial Jobs
  • Developing Management and Managers
  • Management by Objectives and Self-Control
  • From Middle Management to Information-Based Organizations
  • The Spirit of Performance
  • The Elements of Effective Decision Making
  • How to Make People Decisions
  • Managerial Communications
  • Controls, Control, and Management
  • The Manager and the Budget
  • Information Tools and Concepts
  • The Entrepreneurial Business
  • The New Venture
  • Entrepreneurial Strategies
  • Systematic Innovation Using Windows of Opportunity
  • Strategies and Structures
  • Work- and Task-Focused Design
  • Three Kinds of Teams
  • Result- and Relation-Focused Design
  • Alliances
  • The CEO in the New Millennium
  • The Impact of Pension Funds on Corporate Governance
  • Managing Oneself
  • Managing the Boss
  • Revitalizing Oneself—Seven Personal Experiences
  • The Educated Person
  • Conclusion—The Manager of Tomorrow
  • Author’s Note
  • Bibliography
  • Drucker Annotated Bibliography
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