Book : Management Rev Ed - Drucker, Peter F.

-Titulo Original : Management Rev Ed

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Harper Business

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The essential book on management from the man who invented the disciplineNow completely revised and updated for the first time From the Back Cover 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 proteges, 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 Business examples that have now gone out of date have been reworked; commentary to explore and explain Drucker’s thinking and its applications has been added throughout.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. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Management Rev EdBy Peter DruckerHarperCollins Publishers, Inc.Copyright © 2008 Peter DruckerAll right reserved.ISBN: 9780061252662Chapter OneIntroduction: Management and Managers DefinedManagement may be the most important innovation of the twentieth century-and the one most directly affecting the young, educated people in colleges and universities who will be tomorrows knowledge workers in managed institutions, and their managers the day after tomorrow. But what is management? Why management? How do you define managers? What are their tasks, their responsibilities? And how has the study and discipline of management developed to its present state?When the first business schools in the United States opened around the turn of the twentieth century, they did not offer a single course in management. At about that same time, the word management was first popularized by Frederick Winslow Taylor to describe what he had formerly (and more accurately) called work study or task study; we call it industrial engineering today. But when Taylor talked about what we now call management and managers, he said the owners and their representatives.The roots of the discipline of management go back approximately 200 years (see Note: The Roots and History of Management, later in this chapter). But management as a function, management as a distinct work, management as a discipline and area of study-these are all products of the twentieth century. And most people became aware of management only after World War II.Within the life span of todays old-timers, our society has become a knowledge society, a society of organizations, and a networked society. In