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PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT, THE Peter Drucker’s 1954 book The Practice of Management was a landmark achievement. It codified into a discipline the practice of management so that it could be taught and learned systematically by executives and students.

Building on existing knowledge in the scientific method of management in manufacturing; industrial psychology and sociology; human relations and worker motivation; organization and administration; and managerial economics Drucker added concepts relating to the structure of top management; organizational decentralization; management by objectives; and business policy and created an integrated configuration focusing on the work of the manager.

The Practice of Management was written soon after Drucker’s 18month study, during 1944 and 1945, of the structure and policies of the General Motors Corporation, published in 1946 as Concept of the Corporation. The remainder of this entry will clarify these contributions an