1st Edition

Papers on the Science of Administration

Edited By Luther Gulick, L. Urwick Copyright 2003

    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.

    I. Notes on the Theory of Organization
    Luther Gulick
    II. Organization as a Technical Problem
    L. Urwick
    III. The Principles of Organization
    James D. Mooney
    IV. The Administrative Theory in the State
    Henri Fayol
    V. The Function of Administration, with special reference to the work of Henri Fayol
    L. Urwick
    VI. The Need for the Development of Political Science Engineering
    Henry S. Dennison
    VII. The Effects of Social Environment
    L. J. Henderson, T. N. Whitehead and Elton Mayo
    VIII. The Process of Control
    Mary Parker Follett
    IX. The Pros and Cons of Functionization
    John Lee
    X. Relationship in Organization
    V. A. Graicunas
    XI. Science, Values and Public Administration
    Luther Gulick

    Biography

    Gulick, Luther; Urwick, L.