I was going through one book on public administration theories. I did come across some beautiful lines . There are so many lines , here i try to get at least few of them at this location . Here it goes ....
1: The accumulation of data through acceptable techniques does not alone give us adequate knowledge. Knowledge becomes critical and reliable as it increases in generality and internally consistent organization , when , in short , it is cast in the form of systematic generalised statements applicable to large number of particular cases.
2: Economists , for instance , tend to deal with how organizations allocate resources and how decisions are made under conditions of uncertainty. Industrial engineers focus on technological underpinning of organizational activities . Sociologists have have been concerned mainly with structure of organizations and ways in which organizations try to cope up with external environment. Psychologists have been interested in the behaviour of individual and group within organization . Issues of power and authority have attracted attention of political scientists .
3: When coercion is the basis of authority , compliance is alienated ; when remuneration is the basis of authority , compliance takes a calculative turn ; when authority base is normative ( expressed through persuasion ) , compliance is moral .
4: Focus of scientific management is narrow , as it essentially concentrated on the work done at lowest level in the organization .
5: Organizations grow more stupid as years roll by , since executives select subordinates who are less smart then themselves with a view to preventing their potential rivals.
6: Managers tend to be promoted until they reach to level of their incompetence.
7: POSDCORB : planning , organizing , staffing , directing , co-ordinating , reporting , budgeting
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