Principles Of Management (Ascent Series)

About the author harold koontz active as a business and government executive, university professor, company board chairman and director, management consultant, lecturer to the top management of organizations worldwide, and an author. From 1950 he was professor of management and from 1962 mead johnson professor of management at ucla; from 1978 to 1982 he was world chancellor at the international academy of management. He was the author or coauthor of 19 books and 90 journal articles, including this book, which was originally principles of management. His board of directors and effective management was given the academy of management book award in 1968. Table of contents part i: the basis of management theory and science 1. Management science, theory and practice 2. Management and society: social responsibility and ethics part 2: planning 3. The nature and purpose of planning 4. Objectives 5. Strategies, policies, and planning premises 6. Decision making part 3: organizing 7. The nature and purpose of organizing 8. Basic departmentation 9. Line/staff authority and decentralization 10. Eggective organizing and organizational culture part 4: staffing 11. Human resource management and selection 12. Performance appraisal and career strategy 13. Manager and organization development part 5: managing and the human factor 14. Managing and the human factor 15. Motivation 16. Leadership 17. Communication part 6: controlling 18. The system and process of controlling 19. Control techniques and information technology 20. Productivity and operations management 21. Overall and preventive control part 7: international management and the future 22. International management: toward a unified, global management theory