in an organisation constitute administration. In this managerial view the administration has the functions of planning‚ programming and organise all the activities in an organisation so as to achieve the desired ends. Luther Gullick and Herbert Simon subscribe this view. Gullick says ‘Administration has to do with getting things done; with the accomplishment of defined objectives’. These two views are deals the nature of public administration. In simply the nature of Public Administration deals
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Modern (1950s – 1980s) Kuala Lumpur Shop houses: In the 1850s‚ many Chinese tin miners migrated from Klang to Kuala Lumpur to operate new and larger tin mines under Sultan of Selangor. It was then the beginning of the development of Kuala Lumpur. Gullick (2000) affirmed that they landed at the
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was clergyman‚ educator‚ and physician. Later in his life he went on to be an instructor at the Young Men’s Christian Association (now Springfield College) in Springfield‚ Mass. He invented basketball in December of 1889 on request of Dr. Luther H. Gullick‚ that he organize a vigorous recreation suitable for indoor winter play. The game used elements of football‚ soccer‚ and hockey. The first ball used was a soccer ball. Teams had nine players‚ and the goals were wooden peach baskets attached
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Public Administration is a multi-dimensional discipline‚ defined by different authors and scholars‚ according to their understanding. It is viewed by each author in relation to his political environment. It is pertinent to know what public administration is before viewing it’s characteristics… According to Woodrow Wilson; Public Administration is the most obvious part of government. It is government in action and it is the executive‚ the most operative‚ the most visible side of government. Public
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Clemence: I think public administration is a science because it involves the study of government decision making and policies‚ which can help to produce more policies. Science is also defined as the study of something or the pursuit of knowledge on public administration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_administration has more details on public administration. Public administration is not a science or an art. Public administration is known as a "craft" for many reasons. It is not science because
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on many principles and influenced by several theorist beliefs and ideas. Luther Gulick and Henri Fayol shared similarities in management principles and functions. Luther Gulick focuses on seven main functions of management which is referred to as POSDCORB: planning‚ organizing‚ staffing‚ directing‚ coordinating‚ reporting and budgeting. Henri Fayol primary focus is on the seven managerial principles of coordination‚ control‚ organization‚ planning and accounting. Catheryn Seckler -Hudson believed
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Henri Fayol‚ the father of the school of Systematic Management‚ was motivated to create a theoretical foundation for a managerial educational program based on his experience as a successful managing director of a mining company. In his day‚ managers had no formal training and he observed that the increasing complexity of organisations would require more professional management. Fayol’s legacy is his generic Principles of Management. Of Fayol’s six generic activities for industrial undertakings
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viewed as systems‚ management can also be defined as human action‚ including design‚ to facilitate the production of useful outcomes from a system. This view opens the opportunity to ’manage’ oneself‚ a prerequisite to attempting to manage others. POSDCORB An acronym representing the functional responsibilities of a chief executive officer‚ as formulated by Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick in their 1937 paper on administrative management theory. The acronym stands for Planning‚ Organizing‚ Staffing
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operational and business side of administration and wanted it to be free from politics. The classical theories of administration developped in the U.S.A from the 1880’s to the late 1930’s. The classical theorists were Henry Fayol‚ Luther Gullick‚ Mooney‚ Riley etc.. all these writers believed in the existence of certain universal administrative principle which could make organisation function more efficiently and effctively. The classical theory has four features- impersonality‚ division
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Subsumption Theory (David Ausubel) Ausubel’s theory is concerned with how individuals learn large amounts of meaningful material from verbal/textual presentations in a school setting (in contrast to theories developed in the context of laboratory experiments). According to Ausubel‚ learning is based upon the kinds of superordinate‚ representational‚ and combinatorial processes that occur during the reception of information. A primary process in learning is subsumption in which new material is related
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