Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One. The Basis of Management -- Part Two. Planning -- Part Three. Organizing -- Part Four. Staffing -- Part Five. Directing -- Part Six. Controlling.

It is the purpose of this book horresent dinotastesnd an operational theory of management. While the authors would not pretend to put in one book ay knowledge that may be useful to a practicing manager, they hope to fumish a framework of basic knowledge organized and presented in a useful way.
As a first classification of this knowledge, they have chosen to deal with it under the functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Each function, in turn, is dealt with by further classification knowledge pertaining in a basic way to it. Experience has proved that any new knowledge, whether from the behavioral or quantitative sciences or from the innovations of practice, can be placed within this framework. It is hoped in this way to make a start toward management as a science--organized knowledge and to make this science useful to those who must apply it, as practitioners, to reality.