Management and Public Administration

POSDCoRB is a mnemonic term developed by Luther Gulick in 1937 to represent the pass aways of the executive. These essential functions-Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting-provide a sort of administrative prescription which should be followed by any competent administrator. (Blumberg, p. 247)These functions compose a single human face of the authors Notes on the hypothesis of Organization, which discusses the elements necessary for an organization to practise its activities efficiently. After thinking on the Division and Coordination of Work, Gulick reflects on how the organization should be Organized. In order to organize the role of the executive, Gulick asks What is the work of the executive. What does he do? He then presents us with a list of activities-POSDCORB Planning, that is working divulge in broad outline the things that need to be done and the methods for doing them to come upon the purpose set for the enterprise * Org anizing, that is the establishment of the formal authority done which work subdivisions be arranged, defined, and co-ordinated for the defined objective * Staffing, that is the whole personnel function of bringing in and training the staff and maintaining favorable conditions of work *Directing, that is the perpetual task of making decisions and embodying them in specific and general orders and instructions and servicing as the leader of the enterprise * Co-ordinating, that is the all important duty of interrelating the confused parts of the work * Reporting, that is keeping those to whom the executive is responsible informed as to what is going on, which thus includes keeping himself and his subordinates informed through records, research and review * Budgeting, with all that goes with budgeting in the form of fiscal planning, accounting and control. (Gulick, p. 13) These defined functions were inspire by Henri Fayols earlier work in the study of focussing theory, wherein he describes 5 functions Planning, Organizing, Coordinating, Commanding, and Controlling. POSDCORB became an important tool in the scientific focal point movement both in business and the public government.Though it helped to establish a foundation for the humankind of principles by which management should operate, it has met with some opposition in the field of organization studies. Criticism Prior to the release of Notes on the Theory of Organization, Dr. Lewis Meriam, wrote The most important thing that has been omitted from that fascinating word POSDCORB is knowledge of a subject matter. You save to plan something, you have to organize something, you have to ship something Intimate knowledge of the subject matter with which an administrative agency is mainly concerned is indispensable to the effective, intelligent administration of that agency. (Meriam, p. 2-3).In the book, Organizations, Herbert Simon and James March suggested that POSDCORB contributes to the creation of a machine model in administration. Their claim was that the scientific managers have regarded man as a machine rather than as a human being. Pfiffner writes that social scientists, like Simon and March, decry the gods of efficiency and condemn the goals of productiveness as ends in themselves. (Pfiffner, p. 110) Recalling a conversation with Dr. Gulick, Stephen Blumberg writes It is because of the absence in POSDCORB of things such(prenominal) as values and ethics and cooperation that he says that we need to bring to our focus of attention some new guidelines.He feels that weve got to think of our economic problems in impairment of human values and that because we are going to recognize that public administration deals with human beings, we will have to incorporate much more of behavioural thinking into public administration. (Blumberg, p. 247) help on how to format text some Blog Pricing Privacy Terms Support Upgrade Contributions to http//papedia. wikispaces. com are l icensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2. 5 License. Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2. 5 License Portions not contributed by visitors are Copyright 2010 Tangient LLC. Home > Loading Home Turn come to Getting Started Loading