Management Tutorial

Author: Pan Dajun
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This "Management Tutorial" takes the recurring management process and the internal connections among its elements and stages, as well as the changes and developments in management activities, as its research subject. It systematically and comprehensively discusses the fundamental theories, basic principles, and methods and skills of modern management. The book is divided into four parts, 12 chapters, and 40 sections.
Part 1: Introduction, consisting of two chapters and eight sections. It begins with the concept, nature, purpose, tasks, and management environment of management, summarizing the essence of management. At the same time, it discusses the new concept of the "management chain" regarding management principles, methods, techniques, and operational processes, briefly outlining the issues of management processes and functions. This demonstrates that management is a theory that elucidates management principles, norms, and regularities, serving as the qualitative concept of management practice. Clarifying its basic theoretical framework and methodological artistic context is the main objective of this part.
Part 2: Functions, comprising five chapters and 18 sections. It elaborates in detail on the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling functions of management, followed by a dedicated discussion on the core issue of management decision-making, which permeates these four functions. Through this part, readers can clearly understand what management does and how it "correctly does the right things," unifying "doing the right things" and "doing things correctly."
Part 3: Resources, consisting of three chapters and nine sections. After outlining the new resource perspective, it briefly explains the development and management of management, financial, and material resources. It then focuses on detailing the theory and practice of human resource and information resource development and management. This provides a fresh perspective on recognizing that management originates from the objective need for organized resource utilization, clarifying the contemporary view that modern management must strongly emphasize the development and utilization of resources, especially non-material intellectual resources.
Part 4: Development, comprising two chapters. After briefly introducing ancient Chinese and foreign management thoughts, Western modern management theories, and socialist economic management theories to trace the evolution of management thought, it focuses on elaborating on various schools within Western classical management theory, behavioral science theory, and the new developments in modern management theory. This aims to further demonstrate that management is always imbued with a strong sense of the times, rooted in the social and economic development needs of each period and country, and must keep pace with the times.