POSDCORB is an acronym which came out of what executive report.
Brownlow Committee or Commission Report.
100
Frederick Winslow Taylor is most commonly referred to as what?
Who is the Father or Scientific Management.
100
"Politics as a Vocation" was written by which German Sociologist?
Who is Max Weber.
100
This is a concept which Maslow uses to describe the progression of human motivation.
What is Hierarchy of Needs.
100
These are problems that can be defined.
What are Tame Problems.
200
This theory is concerned with social systems conceived as a whole.
What is Systems Theory.
200
This theorist stated, "A formal organization is a system of consciously coordinated activities or forces of two or more persons."
Who is Chester Barnard.
200
The article, "The Study of Administration" was written in what year and by whom?
Who is Woodrow Wilson, 1887.
200
During the industrial revolution, what were the various modes of payment for workers?
What are time rates, piece rates, and job rates.
200
This 1937 classic work of Gulick and Urwick changed the practice of Public Administration in profound ways.
What is "Papers on the Science of Administration."
300
This theoretical domain has been criticized for ignoring the relationship of organizations to the environments by which they are bound.
What is Neo-Classical Theory.
300
This theorist called for "power with" as opposed to "power over" workers.
Who is Mary Parker Follett.
300
In his work, Herbert Simon laid out a rational model of administration.
What is "Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision Making Process in Administrative Organization."
300
This is a concept, which Thomas Kuhn uses to provide an interpretation of the nature of scientific revolution or the development of new conceptual schemes.
What is a Paradigm.
300
This theoretical approach to government administration proposed by Osborne and Gaebler, had a significant impact on public administration in the early 1990's.
What is Reinvention of Government.
400
This theoretical domain grew out of a suspicion that organizations could not be totally built along lines of efficiency.
What is Human Relations Theory.
400
This theorist attacked the so called "gospel of efficiency" in his dissertation, "The Administrative State".
Who is Dwight Waldo.
400
In which work did Max Weber first describe his view of the "ideal type" bureaucracy?
What is "Economy and Society."
400
Fixed and official jurisdictional areas, which are ordered by rules and regulations is a characteristic of what classical organizational theory concept.
What is Bureaucracy.
400
This theorist wrote an article called, "Power and Administration" in 1949, which argued that public managers must do more than apply the scientific method to problems, they also have to increase their power.
Who is Norton Long.
500
This theory of organizations tends, in most cases, to assert the possibility and desirability of a value-free social science.
What is Interpretive Theory.
500
What theorists attempted to unify the findings of behavioral science on organizational behavior through open systems theory.
Who are Katz and Kahn.
500
In response to authors like Frederick Taylor, this 1937 book was the first to discuss the processes of coordination and decision making, which the author found to be central to understanding organizational life.
What is "The functions of the executive."
500
This concept, proposed by Herbert Simon states that rationality is different in "administrative settings" where the administrator is limited by unconscious habits, values, and conceptions.
What is Bounded Rationality.
500
Paul Appleby made this statement in 1945 and it has become one of the most important issues for organizational theory with regard to the question of the proper role for public organizations.