What is management? What is a manager? How is a business organized, and
how can managers use people's strengths more effectively? What is the relationship between
management today and the society and culture it seeks to direct? These and many more
questions are discussed in Peter Drucker's classic survey of management thought and
practice.
People and Performance is the ideal volume for those who want the essence of
Drucker's thinking, but with limited time at their disposal. It spans all the main
dimensions of management and its themes are based on Drucker's direct experience as an
adviser to businesses, government departments, public institutions, and as a widely sought
lecturer.
Presents the essence of Drucker's thinking
Written by one of the world's leading management thinkers
Born in Vienna in 1909, Peter F. Drucker was educated in Austria and
England. From 1929 he was a newspaper correspondent abroad and an economist for an
international bank in London. Since 1937 he has been in the United States, first as an
economist for a group of British banks and insurance companies, and later as a management
consultant to several of the country's largest companies, as well as leading companies
abroad. Drucker has since had a distinguished career as a teacher, first as Professor of
Politics and Philosophy at Bennington College, then for more than twenty years as
Professor of Management at the Graduate Business School of New York University. Since 1971
he has been Clarke Professor of Social Science at Claremont Graduate School in California.
In addition to his management books, Peter Drucker is also renowned for his prophetic
books analysing politics, economics and society. These books span fifty years of modern
history beginning with The End of Economic Man (1939) and including The Practice of
Management; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Managing in the Next Society; Management
Challenges in the 21st Century; The Effective Executive and The Essential Drucker.
Table of Contents
What is management?;
What is a manager?;
What is a business?;
Organizing and managing for performance;
How can managers use the strengths of people?;
Management in society and culture;
Definitions of key terms;
Index.
368 pages, Hardcover