Papers on the Science of AdministrationLuther Gulick, L. Urwick 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
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II Organization as a Technical Problem
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III The Principles of Organization
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IV The Administrative Theory in the State
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V The Function of Administration with Special Reference to the Work of Henri fayol
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VI The Need For the Development of Political Science Engineering
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VII The Effects of Social Environment
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VIII The Process of Control
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IX The Pros and Cons of Functionalization
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X Relationship in Organization
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XI Science Values and Public Administration
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