POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chester Barnard, Scientific Management, Philip Selznick
1 Feb 2017
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Most influential in the 1920s and 1930s. Rests on 4 major tenets: organizations exist to achieve production/economic goals, one best way to organize, specialization and division of labour, people and organizations act rationally. Traditional: rule based on divine right, heredity or religious belief. Rational-legal: laws and regulations; basis for bureaucracy: ideal-type bureaucracy a theoretical construct. Specialized training, education, experience (justify why someone gets hired) Bureaucratic employment is separate from private life. Career: explanation of the evolution of bureaucracy. Luther gulick & lyndall urwick: posdcorb. Functions of management: to forecast and plan, to organise, to command, to co-ordinate, to control. Not very useful for assisting managers in their work or analyzing what they do, but part of lexicon of management. General principles of management: division of work, authority and responsibility, discipline, unity of command, unity of direction, remuneration of personnel, centralization. Application of classical organization theory to the canadian public service.
