Management

Introduction to the revised edition of Management: Tasks, Responsibilities

Preface

Introduction: management and managers defined

Management as a social function and liberal act

The dimensions of management

Management's new realities

Management's new realities Part I - Knowledge is all

Management's new realities part II - New demographics

The new realities Part III - Future of the corporation and the way ahead

Management's new paradigm

Business performance

The theory of business

The purpose and objective of a business

Making the future today

Strategic planning: the entrepreneurial skill

Performance in service institutions

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

Productive work and achieving worker

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

Social impacts and social responsibilities

The new pluralism: how to balance the special purpose of the institution with the common good

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 information-based organizations

The spirit of performance

Managerial skills

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

Innovation and entrepreneurship

The entrepreneurial business

The new venture

Entrepreneurial strategies

Systematic innovation using windows of opportunity

Managerial organization

Strategies and structures

Work- and task-focused design

Kinds of teams

Result- and relation-focused design

Alliances

The CEO in the new millennium

The governance of the corporation

New demands on the individual

Managing oneself

Managing the boss

Realizing oneself - seven personal experiences

The educated person

Conclusion: the manager of tomorrow

Bibliography

Drucker annotated bibliography

About Peter F. Drucker

About the Peter F. Drucker Institute

Index.