Every enterprise, regardless of size, faces the challenge of managing operation effectively. In fact, effective management is an objective that organizations have been pursuing for thousands of years, and there is no evidence that this pursuit will cease in the near future. No matter how well a managers carries out his or her job, thereare always ways of doing at last part of the task more effectively. Fortunately, over the last half-century, practitioners of management have come to realize that this process of getting things done through others requires more than just experience, intuition, and a genuine concern for the well-being of the workers. The purpose of this book is to identify, examine, and explain these fundamentals, or principles, of management.