This book describes in detail the three responsibilities of management: the perforamnce of the institution for which managers work, making work productive and the worker achieving, and managing social impacts and social responsibilities. It goes on to describe the tasks and practices that a manager must acquire to fulfill his or her responsibilities.

Introduction to the revised edition of Management : tasks, responsibilities, practices -- Preface -- Introduction management and managers defined -- Management as a social function and liberal act -- The dimensions of management -- pt. 1. Management's new realities -- Knowledge is all -- New demographics -- The future of the corporation and the way ahead -- pt. 2. Business performance -- The theory of business -- The purpose and objectives of a business -- Making the future today -- Strategic planning : the entrepreneurial skill -- pt. 3. Performance in service institutions -- Managing service institutions in the society of organizations -- What successful and performing nonprofits are teaching business -- The accountable school -- Rethinking "reinventing government" -- Entrepreneurship in the public-service institution -- pt. 4. Productive work and achieving worker -- Making work productive and the worker achieving -- Managing the work and worker in manual work -- Managing the work and worker in knowledge work -- pt. 5. Social impacts and social responsibilities -- Social impacts and social responsibilities -- The new pluralism: how to balance the special purpose of the institution with the common good -- pt. 6. The manager's work and jobs -- Why managers? -- Design and content of managerial jobs -- Developing management and managers -- Management by objectives and self-control -- From middle management to information-based organizations -- The spirit of performance -- pt. 7. Managerial skills -- The elements of effective decision making -- How to make people decisions -- Managerial communications -- Controls, control, and management -- The manager and the budget -- Information tools and concepts -- pt. 8. Innovation and entrepreneurship -- The entrepreneurial business -- The new venture -- Entrepreneurial strategies -- Systematic innovation using windows of opportunity -- pt. 9. Managerial organization -- Strategies and structures -- Work- and task-focused design -- Three kinds of teams -- Result- and relation-focused design -- Alliances -- The CEO in the new millennium -- The impact of pension funds on corporate governance -- pt. 10. New demands on the individual -- Managing oneself -- Managing the boss -- Realizing oneself : seven personal experiences -- The educated person -- Conclusion: the manager of tomorrow.