ADMINISTRATIVE THINKERS

SIGNIFICANT WORKS AND IDEAs AND THINKERs



S.No NAME THREE INFLUENTIAL WORKS THREE INFLUENTIAL IDEAS/CONCEPTS
1.
Kautilya- 350-283
B.C Ancient Indian Philosopher Adviser to King Chandragupta Maurya.
1. Arthashastra
2. Neetishatra
3. Chanakya Neeti
1. Monarchy as the best form of government; Absolute Powers to King.
2.Saptaganga theory of elements of state.
3. Principles of public administration.
2.
Woodrow Wilson
(1856-1924) Former President of America and Political Scientist
1. The study of Administration, 1887.
2. Congressional Government, 1885.
3. The Constitutional Government in the United States, 1908.
1. Importance of study of administration as science.
2. Politics-administration dichotomy.
3. Public administration as ‘Government in action’.
3. Henri Feyol (1841-1925) French Mining Engineer and Administrative Theorist
1. General and Industrial Management, 1949.
2. The Theory of the Administration of the States, 1923.
3. General Principles of Administrations (1908).
1. Principles of Management.
2. General Theory of management/management process school.
3. Gang plank/Level jumping.
4.
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1865-1915) Engineer, Inventor and Consultant.


1. Shop Management, 1903.
2. The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911.
3. The Testimony Before the House Special Committee, 1912.
1. Principles of Scientific management.
2. “one best way” of doing things.
3. Functional Foremanship.
5. Max Weber (1864-1920) German Sociologist and Political Scientist.
1. The Theory of Social and Economic Organisation, 1947.
2. Economic and Society, 1909.
3. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1904.
1. Forms of authority.
2. Legal rational bureaucracy.
3. Protestant ethic.
6.
Luther Gulick (1892-1993) American Expert on Public Administration.
Lyndall Urwick (1891-1983) British Management Consultant.
1. The Papers on Science of Administration, 1937,(Edited by Gulick and Urwick).
2. Metropolitan Problems and American Ideas, 1962(Gulick).
3. The Elements of Administration, 1947(Urwick).
1. Structure based principles of organization.
2. POSDCORB as function of executive.
3. Bases of departmentalization.
7. Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) American Political Scientist, Social worker and Management Consultant.
1. Dynamic Administration, 1924.
2. Creative Experience, 1924.
3. Freedom and Coordination, 1949.
1. Constructive conflict.
2. Integration.
3. Depersonalising orders.
8. George Elton Mayo (1880-1949) Australian Social Psychologist and Industrial Researcher.
1. The Human Problems of Industrial Civilisation, 1933.
2. The Political Problems of Industrial Civilisation, 1974.
3. The Social Problems of Industrail Civilisation, 1975.

1. Human relations approach to organizations.
2. Hawthrone effect.
3. Role of Informal organization and groups in effecting the behavior of individuals at work.
9. Chester I. Bernard (1886-1961) American Executive and Management Thinker.
1. Functions of the Executive, 1938.
2. Organisation and Management, 1948.
3. Selected papers of Chester I. Bernard, 1986
1. Acceptance theory of authority and “Zone of Indifference”.
2. Contribution-satisfaction equilibrium.
3. Function of the executive.
10. Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001) American Political Scienntist and Economist.
1. Administrative Behaviour, 1947.
2. Organisation, 1958.
3. The New Science of Management Decision,1960.
1. Administration as decision-making.
2. Bounded rationality.
3. Zone of acceptance.


11. Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) American Psychologist and Motivation Theorist.
1. Motivation and Personality, 1954.
2. A Theory of Human Motivation, 1943.
3. Religion, Values and Peak Experiences, 1965.
1. Hierarchy of needs.
2. Self-actualisation.
3. Peak experiences.
12. Douglas McGregor (1906-1964) American Social Psychologist and Management Consultant.
1. The Human side of Enterprise, 1960.
2. The Professional Manager, 1967.
3. Leadership and Motivation, 1969.


1. Theory “X” and Theory “Y”.
2. Management education from cosmology to reality.
3. Transactional influence.
13. Chris Argyris (July 16, 1923) American Behavioural Theorist and Management Writer
1. Personality and Organisation, 1957.
2. Integrating the Individual and the Organisation, 1964.
3. Organisation Learning, 1978.
1. Maturity-Immaturity theory.
2. T-Group Techniques; single loop and Double loop learning.
3. Organisational Learning.
14. Frederick Herzberg (1923-2000) American Psychologist and Management Consultant.
1. The Motivation to work, 1959.
2. Work and the Nature of Man, 1966.
3. The Managerial Choice, 1982.
1. Hygiene Motivation theory.
2. Job Enrichment
3. Job Loading.
15. Rensis Likert (1903-1981) American Organisational Psychologist and Educator.
1. New Pattern of Management, 1961.
2. The Human Organisation, 1967.
3. New Ways of Managing Conflicts,1976.
1. Management system 1-4.
2. Linking Pin Model.
3. Interaction influence system.
16. Fred W. Riggs (1917-2008) Chinese born American Political scientist and Administrative Model Builder.
1. The Ecology of public Administration, 1961.
2. Administration in Developing Countries, 1964.
3. Frontiers of Development Administration, 1970.
1. Prismatic society.
2. Sala model of administration.
3. Development as diffraction and integrations.
17. Yehezkel Dror (born 1928) Israeli Political Scientist and Pioneer in policy studies.
1. Public Policy-making Reexamined, 1968.
2. Design for Polity Sciences, 1971.
3. Ventures in Policy Sciences, 1971.
1. Societal direction system as a mega-knowledge system.
2. “Optimal-model” of policy making.
3. Paradigm of policy sciences.
18. Dwight Waldo (1913-2000) American Political Scientist and “Defining figure” in Public Administration.
1. The Administrative State, 1948.
2. The study of Public Administration, 1955.
3. Public Administration in a Time of Turbulence, 1971.
1. Public Administration as political approach.
2. Professional orientation to public administration.
3. New Public Administration.


19. Peter Drucker (1909-2005) American Management Thinker, Professor and Consultant.
1. The Practice of Management, 1954.
2. Management –Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, 1974.
3. Management Challeges for the 21st Century, 1992.
1. Management by objectives.
2. Restructuring Government/ New Public Management.
3. Knowledge society and knowledge workers.
20. Karl Marx (1818-1883) German Revoloutionary Philosopher and Political Economist.
1. Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,1844.
2. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1850.
3. A Contibution to the Critic of Political Economy, 1859.
1. Bureaucracy as an exploitative class instrument.
2. Materialistic interpretation of history.
3. Alienation of Bureaucracy.




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