Luther Gulick
1892 � 1993
Luther Gulick was among those who
expanded on the works of Henri Fayol to build a foundation for
management theory. He viewed management functions as universal. His
seven-activities acronym, POSDCORB, is a familiar word throughout
management practice. POSDCORB stands for planning, organizing, staffing,
directing, co-ordinating, reporting and budgeting. He wanted to revise
administrative practices by the establishment of general rules.
He agreed with Frederick Taylor in that he believed that certain
characteristics of organizations provided administrators with the means
to manage effectively. He was in accord with Max Weber in that
organizations were hierarchical. Gulick added the concept of span of
control, which addressed the factors limiting the number of people a
manager could supervise. He also recommended unity of command because he
felt that people should know to whom they were responsible. His
homogeneity of work centred on the fact that an organization should not
combine dissimilar activities in single agencies. This was the basis of
Gulick�s major contribution in the area of departmentalization.
Luther Halsey Gulick, III (January 17,
1892 in Osaka - January 10, 1993 in New York) was an expert on public
administration. He was the son of physician and Camp Fire Girls founder
Luther Gulick (1865-1918).
Luther Gulick III graduated from Oberlin College in 1914 and received
his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1920. He became a staff member of
the New York Bureau of Municipal Research (later the Institute of Public
Administration). He taught at Columbia from 1931-1942, and then returned
to the Institute of Public Administration as its director from 1942
until his retirement in 1961.
Among many other accomplishments in the field of public administration,
Gulick is perhaps best known for the functions of the executive
represented in the acronym POSDCORB. Each letter stands for Planning,
Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting and Budgeting.
In a time where the prevalent theme was the separation of politics and
administration, Gulick advocated that it was impossible to separate the
two.
Bibliography of Luther Gulick
* Evolution of the Budget in Massachusetts (1920)
* Administrative Reflections from World War II (1948)
* American Forest Policy (1951)
* The Metropolitan Problem and American Ideas (1962).
Luther Halsey Gulick
Luther Halsey Gulick, III
(January 17, 1892 in Osaka � January 10, 1993 in New York) was an expert
on public administration. He was the son of physician and Camp Fire
Girls founder Luther Gulick (1865-1918).
Luther Gulick III graduated from
Oberlin College in 1914 and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University
in 1920. He became a staff member of the New York Bureau of Municipal
Research (later the Institute of Public Administration). He taught at
Columbia from 1931-1942, and then returned to the Institute of Public
Administration as its director from 1942 until his retirement in 1961.
Among many other accomplishments in the
field of public administration, Gulick is perhaps best known for the
functions of the executive represented in the acronym PODSCORB (or
POSDCORB depending on the source). Each letter stands for Planning,
Organizing, Directing, Staffing, Coordinating, Reporting and Budgeting.
In a time where the prevalent theme was
the separation of politics and administration, Gulick advocated that it
was impossible to separate the two.
Bibliography
of Luther Gulick
- Evolution of the Budget in
Massachusetts (1920)
- Administrative Reflections from
World War II (1948)
- American Forest Policy
(1951)
- The Metropolitan Problem and
American Ideas (1962).
References
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