The Daily Drucker

12 November The Work of the Manager

Managers can improve their performance by improving their performance of these constituent activities.

There are five basic operations in the work of the manager.

• Managers, in the first place, set objectives. They determine what the objectives should be. They determine what the goals in each area of objectives should be. They decide what has to be done to reach these objectives. They make the objectives effective by communicating them to the people whose performance is needed to attain them.
• Second, managers organize. They analyze the activities, decisions, and relations needed. They classify the work. They divide it into manageable activities and further divide the activities into manageable jobs. They ...