The book has two parts. Part I, entitled Management Principles and Functions, contains the typically applied business management principles by looking externally at the business environment before delving into it. The evolution of management thought shows the historical transformation of managing people at work, cutting-across different `schools of thought'- Customs management, Scientific management, Behavioural school and the Total Quality Management system perspective.

The book talks about the different approaches in the decision-making process, the scope of problem-solving as a requisite to decision-making. It also contains the how to's of organizational diagnosis to determine the state-of-health of business corporations and organizations. The different functions of a manager– planning, leading, controlling are taken in a simplified way.

Part II is about Corporate Values and Culture, the historical concepts of work' and the accompanyingvalues' that have been attached to it which dictated people's work attitudes, behaviours and relations. The Filipino value system based on Landa F. Jocano has the best and most extensive research on Filipino values and how he is able to relate these values into the Filipino life.

Development management re-focuses the scientific approach to the more humanistic' form of management. Values can be enhanced to make people in the workplace more positively relational, and hence, productive. Why so? It isvalues' which keep the organization strong inside. An example of an effective mechanism for values enhancement is the 5S program. It is basically and practically Asian in nature but very generic as well.