Summary: The overall thrust of Drucker's work is to create a society of functioning organizations. Drucker worked as a Social Ecologist and developed the discipline and practice of management to do this. Module I therefore covers the topics of "A Functioning Society and Social Ecology."

Module II - The Theory of the Business

Summary: The Theory of the Business is the way an organization creates values for its customers and for society. It requires understanding the environment an organization faces; its mission or purpose; and its core competencies or strengths.

Module III - Managing Social Sector Institutions

Summary: A functioning society requires that the discipline of management be applied to all organizations of the society including non profit and governmental institutions. This module covers the application of Drucker principles to the social sector institutions of society.

Module IV - Making Work Productive and the Worker Achieving

Summary: A basic task of management is to make the work of individuals in the organization productive but to do so while creating motivation in the human being. These two topics, making work productive and the worker achieving, are covered in this module.

Module V - Social Impacts and Social Responsibility

Social Responsibility: An organization exists to make a contribution to society. It can only exist if the society is healthy. This requires that an organization take responsibility for the negative impacts it creates on society as it pursues its own mission. In addition, the best organizations go beyond these two requirements and contribute financially, and by volunteering individual efforts for helping to solve society's problems.

Module VI - Management by Objectives & Self Control

Summary: The centerpiece of Drucker's Management System is the creation of functioning organizations in order to create a functioning society.  Management by Objectives and Self Control is the Drucker's philosophy of managing organizations to do this.

Module VII - Implementing MBO through the Balanced Scorecard

Summary: Management by Objectives requires metrics and a system for achieving its intended results. Drucker recommended the balanced scorecard for doing this. Others have worked out the details for doing this which are covered in this module.

Modules VIII & IX - The Effective Executive Parts I & II

Summary: Drucker's work on management may be divided into two parts-the policies and structures for managing society's organizations and leadership principles for doing so. Drucker's basic leadership principles are discussed in Modules VIII & IX.

Module X - Managerial Skills

Summary: In addition to principles of organization and management and principles of leadership, Drucker develops a number of skills executives must acquire if they are to be effective. This module covers these skills.

Module XI - Managerial Organization

Summary: Effective managerial organizations are required to successfully implement an organization's Theory of the Business. This large topic is the subject of Module XI.

Modules XII & XIII - Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Summary: For a society to prevent decline and to continue to grow it requires systematic processes for creating new wealth. The processes of entrepreneurship, with its specific goal of innovation, should be carried out in each organization. Modules XII and XIII are devoted to developing these systematic processes.

Module XIV - Drucker on Leadership & Management