ADMINISTRATIVE 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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