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This paper is a report by a political scientist on a field of literature which has not been much visited by political scientists, the literature of scientific administration. This is very large; an amateur in it cannot in the time available to him read more than a sample, and the picture presented here is over-simplified because of this limitation, as well as because of the limits of space.
This paper contains the substance of a lecture given at the London School of Economics on 5 November 1951 and published in the Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, XX (Jan 1952).
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F. C. Hooper, Management Survey (Pitman, 1948 ), p. 99.
General
Mary Parker Follett, The New State, 3rd impression, with an introduction by Lord Haldane (Longman’s, 1920).
Mary Parker Follett, Dynamic Administrationcollected papers on business administration, ed. H C. Metcalf and L. Urwick (Management Publications Trust: London, 1945–9).
L. Urwick and E. F. L. Brech, The Making of Scientific Management vol. (Management Publications Trust: London, 1945–9).
Dwight Waldo, The Administrative State ( The Ronald Press Co.: N.Y., 1948 ).
F. C. Hooper, Management Survey (Pitman, 1948 ).
E. T. Elbourne, Fundamentals of Industrial Administration, 4th ed. (Macdonald and Evans, 1948 ).
‘Taylorism’
F. W. Taylor’s first influential papers (‘Shop Management’, 1903; ‘The Art of Cutting Metals’, 1906) are not very readily available. A good general survey is a symposium, Scientific Management in American Industry ed. for the Taylor Society (Harper: N.Y., 1929).
Frank B. Gilbreth, Motion Study (D. Van Nostrand Co.) N.Y., 1911 ).
Frank B. Gilbreth, Applied Motion Study (Routledge, 1919 ).
(There are many text-books on modern practice.)
Deductive Theory
H. Fayol, Industrial & General Administration, trans. Coubrough (International Management Institute, 1930 ).
Oliver Sheldon, The Philosophy of Management (Pitman, 1924) ch. 2.
J. C. Mooney and A. P. Reilley, Onward Industry; The Principles of Organisation (1931).
L. Gulick and L. Urwick, Papers on the Science of Administration ( Institute of Public Administration: N.Y., 1937 ).
L. Urwick, The Elements of Administration ( Harper: N.Y., 1944 ).
E. F. L. Brech, Management: its Nature & Significance, 2nd ed., (Pitman, 1947 ).
The Sociology of Administration
Elton Mayo, The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation (Macmillan, 1933).
Elton Mayo, The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilisation (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1949).
Chester Barnard, The Functions of the Executive (Harvard University Press, 1938).
Chester Barnard, Organization and Management (Harvard University Press, 1948).
F. J. Roethlisberger, W. J. Dickson and H. A. Wright, Management & the Worker, the detailed record of the. Wright, Management & the Worker, the detailed record of the ‘Hawthorne Experiment’ (Harvard University Press, 1941).
F. J. Roethlisberger, Management & Morale (Harvard University Press, 1941 ).
H. A. Simon, Administrative Behavior (Macmillan: N.Y., 1945 ).
H. A. Simon, D. W. Smithburg, and V. A. Thompson, Public Administration ( Knopf: N.Y., 1950 ).
M. T. Copeland and A. R. Towl, The Board of Directors & Business Management (Harvard School of Business Administration, 1947 ).
W. B. D. Brown and W. Raphael, Managers, Men and Morale (Mac-donald and Evans, 1948).
J. D. Glover and R. M. Hower, The Administrator (Irwin: Chicago, 1949 ). A book of case-studies in business administration produced by the Harvard Business School.
M. L. Mace, The Growth & Development of Executives (Harvard University Press, 1950).
Sune Carlson, Executive Behaviour ( Stromberg, Stockholm, 1951 ).
Elliot Jaques, The Changing Culture of a Factory (Tavistock Publications, 1951).
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Mackenzie, W.J.M. (1975). Science in the Study of Administration. In: Explorations in Government. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01883-3_10
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