Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

Drucker, Peter F.

ISBN 10: 0812909321 / ISBN 13: 9780812909326

Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1974

About this Item

Seventh Printing, 1974. xvi, 839 pp. 8vo. Minor scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Seventh Printing indicated at second to last page from rear where the printing number line begins with "7" Signed by Peter F. Drucker on the first free endpaper. Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005) was the foremost management thinker of the 20th century who wrote extensively on management, managing oneself, and overall challenges facing society with the growth of the modern corporation. Drucker was also known as the "Father" of modern management and this has always been thought of as his most important book. It was not often that Drucker signed books, he was not one for book tours or for venturing much beyond his home or classroom in Claremont, California -- those seeking his advice came to him.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
• Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers, New York
• Publication Date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0812909321
• ISBN 13: 9780812909326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Leadership & Management
  • Signed by Author
  • Business & Industry

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Synopsis

Explores the challenging new roles, managerial tasks, practices, and requirements for business executives and managers in the 1980s and discusses ways to better manage organizational changes, stress areas, and pressure

About the Author

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.