Proverbs of Administration
Starting with Neo Classical School
Herbert Simon
The Proverbs of Administration
Note: The paragraphs in blue are the article text extracts that Fares read in class.
Introduction:
Wrapping up what we talked about under classical school in the previous sessions:
1-Universal principles of management,
2-Only one way of doing things, discover this one way and implement it (no two or more ways)
3-It tells you in a normative way what you ought to do (not empirical) they don’t go and see what people do and come up with a science. Even Taylor said after I develop a science u have to adopt and follow it
4-The Classical school doesn’t talk about humans. It talks about structure, rules, regulations, specialization, and coordination.
No one in this school talked about decision making, psychology,
Note: Neo classical school is a critique for the classical theory. The Neo Classical School focuses on people, psychology and sociology rather than organization and structure. (We will have four articles under this school, Herbert Simon, Douglas McGregor (X and Y theory), Politics and Public Administration, Systems Theory not book included)
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Herbert Simon is saying that all what we have read so far about classical PA are proverbs (Khabriyet, since Simon didn’t see a real theory under the classical school, he only heard talking about structure and regulations). The aim of Simon’s article is to show us how a theory should be thought at.
Some Accepted Administrative Principles From The Classical School:
1-Specialization of the task: (From Taylor):
Simon criticizes Taylor by explaining specialization through the nurse example below:
A-Specialization by place (district), where nurses will do school s examinations, visit to homes. The nurses work within their district and become specialists in their corresponding district.
B-Specialization by function where different nurses are assigned special
Herbert Simon
The Proverbs of Administration
Note: The paragraphs in blue are the article text extracts that Fares read in class.
Introduction:
Wrapping up what we talked about under classical school in the previous sessions:
1-Universal principles of management,
2-Only one way of doing things, discover this one way and implement it (no two or more ways)
3-It tells you in a normative way what you ought to do (not empirical) they don’t go and see what people do and come up with a science. Even Taylor said after I develop a science u have to adopt and follow it
4-The Classical school doesn’t talk about humans. It talks about structure, rules, regulations, specialization, and coordination.
No one in this school talked about decision making, psychology,
Note: Neo classical school is a critique for the classical theory. The Neo Classical School focuses on people, psychology and sociology rather than organization and structure. (We will have four articles under this school, Herbert Simon, Douglas McGregor (X and Y theory), Politics and Public Administration, Systems Theory not book included)
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Herbert Simon is saying that all what we have read so far about classical PA are proverbs (Khabriyet, since Simon didn’t see a real theory under the classical school, he only heard talking about structure and regulations). The aim of Simon’s article is to show us how a theory should be thought at.
Some Accepted Administrative Principles From The Classical School:
1-Specialization of the task: (From Taylor):
Simon criticizes Taylor by explaining specialization through the nurse example below:
A-Specialization by place (district), where nurses will do school s examinations, visit to homes. The nurses work within their district and become specialists in their corresponding district.
B-Specialization by function where different nurses are assigned special