People and performance : the best of Peter Drucker on management

Contents:
Pt. 1. WHAT IS MANAGEMENT?;
1. Why Managers?;
2. Management: Its Roots and Its Emergence;
3. Management: A Look Backward and a Look Forward;
4. The Dimensions of Management;
5. The Challenges of Management;

Pt. 2. WHAT IS A MANAGER?;
6. Managers and Their Work;
7. Management by Objectives and Self-Control;
8. From Middle Management to Knowledge Organization;
9. Staffing for Excellence;

Pt. 3. WHAT IS A BUSINESS?;
10. What Is a Business?
11. Business Realities
12. Managing a Business: The Sears Story;
13. The Power and Purpose of Objectives;
14. The Delusion of Profits;
15. Managing Capital Productivity;
16. Managing the Public Service Institution;

Pt. 4. ORGANIZING AND MANAGING FOR PERFORMANCE;
17. The Innovative Organization;
18. New Templates for Today's Organizations;
19. The Building Blocks of Organizations...;
20. Chapter 20 ...And How They Join Together;
21. The Multinational Corporation;

Pt. 5. HOW CAN MANAGERS USE THE STRENGTHS OF PEOPLE?
22. Is Personnel Management Bankrupt?
23. What We Know About Work, Working, and Worker;
24. Worker and Working: Theories and Reality;
25. How to Be an Employee;
26. Managing the Knowledge Worker;
27. What the Computer Will Be Telling You;

Pt. 6. MANAGEMENT IN SOCIETY AND CULTURE;
28. Management and the Quality of Life;
29. Social Impacts and Social Problems;
30. The Limits of Social Responsibility;
31. The Ethics of Responsibility;
32. Multinationals and Developing Countries: Myths and Realities.
Includes index.