The changing scene: organizational adaptation and survival -- The challenge of change -- Today's concept of organizational management -- Planning -- Decision making -- Organizing -- Improving performance and controlling the critical cycle -- Budgeting: controlling the ultimate resource -- Committees and teams -- Adaptation, motivation, and conflict management -- Training and development: the backbone of motivation and retention -- Authority, leadership, and supervision -- Human resource management: a line manager's perspective -- Communication: the glue that binds us together -- Day-to-day management for the professional-as-manager.