People and Performance The Best of Peter Drucker on Management

Name: People and Performance The Best of Peter Drucker on Management
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ISBN: 9781422120651

ISBN-10: 1422120651

ISBN-13: 9781422120651

Edition: 2007

Authors: Peter F. Drucker

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What is management and what is the relationship between the society and culture it seeks to direct? How is a business organized, and how can managers use people's strengths more effectively? These and many more questions are discussed in Peter Drucker's classic survey of management thought and practice.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date: 8/13/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 317
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Peter F. Drucker has been Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate School in California since 1971.



Acknowledgments



What Is Management?



Why Managers?



Management: Its Roots and Its Emergence



Management: A Look Backward and a Look Forward



The Dimensions of Management



The Challenges of Management



What Is a Manager?



Managers and Their Work



Management by Objectives and Self-Control



From Middle Management to Knowledge Organization



Staffing for Excellence



What Is a Business?



What Is a Business?



Business Realities



The Power and Purpose of Objectives



The Delusion of Profits



Managing Capital Productivity



Managing the Public Service Institution



Organizing and Managing for Performance



The Innovative Organization



The Building Blocks of Organizations...



...And How They Join Together



How Can Managers Use the Strengths of People?



Is Personnel Management Bankrupt?



What We Know About Work, Working, and Worker



Worker and Working: Theories and Reality



How to Be an Employee



Management in Society and Culture



Management and the Quality of Life



Social Impacts and Social Problems



The Limits of Social Responsibility



The Ethics of Responsibility


Definitions of Key Terms


Index