Essay On Administrative Principles

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Mary Bowers
CLC September 14, 2014

Administrative principles look more at the organization, or department as a whole and not focus on individual employees or functions of the organization. Fayol, Gulick, and Urwick, among others, started creating principles for “organizing different tasks into jobs, jobs into work units, and work units into departments” (Liebler & McConnell, 2012). Fayol broke away from Gulick and Urwick and created his own fourteen management principles, which were pertinent to all types of organizations and consisted of “Division and specialization of work, Authority, Discipline, Unity of command, Unity of direction, Placing group interests above individual interests, Pay, Centralization, Line of authority or scalar chain, Order, Equity, Stability …show more content…

It takes a large group effort. Gulick and Urwick also created an acronym of what work the chief executive does, but it also goes along with the administrative principles. “POSDCORB (planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting)” is not only for the chief executive or upper management but for everyone involved with making sure the organization is ran efficiently and correctly. These administrative principles have also sparked ideas in other writers to promote the development the principles and design the theory of management and organization. James D. Mooney was one writer who created additional principles, such as, “coordination, scalar (hierarchical) levels of authority and responsibility, delegation, staff work, and function (duties)” (Liebler & McConnell, 2012). Gulick lived from 1892 till 1993; he applied these administrative management theory principles to Government (Vonderach). Fayol was born in 1841 in France where he worked for a coal miner, and died in 1925 (Vonderach). Mooney was born in 1884 and studied mechanical engineering and also wrote a book that was a “significant contribution to administrative management

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