Management

The challenges of managing has never been greater, especially with current attention focused on such issues as international competition, inflation, product quality, productivity, and quality of work life. Yet these challenges must be met for organizations to address successfully all of the issues which dominate the business climate today. A major purpose of this book is to help meet these challenges by providing you with a thorough understanding pf how to manage organizations effectively. The book stresses the nature, function, and process of management and management skills that are applicable in a wide variety of organizations, including private, governmental, and not-for-profit, as well as very large to very small organizations.