Management Fundamentals

Steven Cohen is senior vice dean of Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, professor in the practice of public affairs at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and the director of the Earth Institute’s Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management as well as two other masters’ programs at Columbia University. His books include The Sustainable City (Columbia, 2017) and Sustainability Management (Columbia, 2011). William B. Eimicke is professor of practice and founding director of the Picker Center for Executive Education at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He was New York City’s deputy fire commissioner and the state’s housing “czar,” and his books include Social Value Investing: A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships (Columbia, 2018, with Howard W. Buffett).

Introduction
1. The Evolution of Management
Part I. Leading and Managing Organizational Operations
2. Leadership
3. Budget, Management, and Control
4. How Work Gets Done: Human Resource Management, Organization Structure, and Standard Operating Procedures
5. How We Know What’s Been Done: Performance and Information Management
6. Sustainability and Material Management
Part II. The Organization and Its Environment
7. Strategic Planning
8. Contracts, Outsourcing, Supply Chains, and the Make-or-Buy Decision
9. Cross-Sector Partnerships: How the Three Sectors Differ and Why Collaboration is Beneficial
Part III. The Organization and Society
10. Marketing, Stakeholder Relations, and Public Engagement: Improving Management Communications
11. Organizational Ethics
12. The Future of Work: How Will Changes in Work and Society Change Management?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index