Drucker Peter F. Management Cases

Harper Collins, 2009. — 256 p.The companion to Drucker's seminal work Management, completely revised and updatedManagement Cases, Revised Edition is a collection of thought-provoking case studies — each a timeless representative of a challenge that all managers will face at some point in their careers. Longtime Drucker colleague, collaborator, and eminent management professor Joseph A. Maciariello has organized the material to be used in conjunction with Management, Revised Edition, making the book particularly useful in undergraduate, MBA, and executive education classrooms.It contains fifteen completely new cases written especially for this edition plus another thirty-five revised and updated cases, ensuring that the book provides comprehensive coverage of the most important management dilemmas and most timeless leadership wisdom. An essential resource for business students and working professionals alike, the book will help readers test and hone their management skills.The fifty cases in this book all deal with specific situations, specific problems, specific decisions — every one of them typical and fairly common in business and public ser vice organizations. They are all management situations, management problems, and management decisions — and that means that they deal with what people have to face, what people have to resolve, and what people have to decide. They are thus typical of the kind of situation, problem, and decision everyone in management commonly faces — the kind of situations, problems, and decisions today’s executives and students are likely to face tomorrow. They should thus be approached by students and instructors as cases that ask, How should one handle this?
The cases are organized into ten groups following the organization of the text Management: Revised Edition. They are:Management’s New Realities
Business Performance
Performance in Service Institutions
Productive Work and Achieving Worker
Social Impacts and Social Responsibilities
The Manager’s Work and Jobs
Managerial Skills