"What is management? What is the relationship between management and the society and culture it seeks to direct? How is a business organised, 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. Spanning all the main dimensions of management, Drucker used his direct experience as an adviser to businesses, government departments, public institutions, and as a widely sought lecturer to examine evergreen topics in business thinking. Management Essentials is the ideal volume for those who want to experience the essence of Drucker's early thinking in a series of short and cogent essays"--

Part I. 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 -- Part II. What is a manager?: Managers and their work -- Management by objectives and self-control -- From middle management to knowledge organization -- Staffing for excellence -- Part III. 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 -- Part IV. Organizing and managing for performance: The innovative organization -- The building blocks of organizations ... -- ... And how they join together -- Part V. 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 -- Part VI. 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.

"What is management? What is the relationship between management and the society and culture it seeks to direct? How is a business organised, 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. Spanning all the main dimensions of management, Drucker used his direct experience as an adviser to businesses, government departments, public institutions, and as a widely sought lecturer to examine evergreen topics in business thinking. Management Essentials is the ideal volume for those who want to experience the essence of Drucker's early thinking in a series of short and cogent essays"-