Papers on the Science of Administration

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Kenneth Thompson, Luther Halsey Gulick
Psychology Press, 2003 - Business & Economics - 206 pages
This edited collection includes contributions by Mary Parker Follett, Henri Fayol, James D. Mooney and Henry S. Dennison, and L. J. Henderson, T. N. Whitehead and Elton Mayo. The paper by Henderson, Whitehead and Mayo discusses the findings of the Hawthorne experiments. Whilst admiring the pioneering work of Taylor, these authors criticize scientific management on the grounds that it does not study the facts of human organization. The Hawthorne experiments revealed the importance of spontaneous social organization of the work group into a micro-social system.
 

Contents

I Notes on The Theory of Organization
1
II Organization as a Technical Problem
50
III The Principles of Organization
98
IV The Administrative Theory in the State
108
V The Function of Administration with Special Reference to the Work of Henri fayol
125
VI The Need For the Development of Political Science Engineering
141
VII The Effects of Social Environment
153
VIII The Process of Control
170
IX The Pros and Cons of Functionalization
181
X Relationship in Organization
190
XI Science Values and Public Administration
198
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