THE RATIONAL MODEL OF ORGANIZATION (pages 81-91)

Presented as a report by J. B. Nangpuhan II (MPA Student) for the class (Organization and Society) of Dr. H. G. Kim at Chonnam National University, Korea on Nov. 3, 2010.

 

SUMMARY[1] 

 

I.        (A SCIENCE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR)

II.      (THE GENERIC APPROACH TO ADMINISTRATION)

III.    (THE PROVERBS OF ADMINISTRATION)

IV.    (THE RATIONAL MODEL OF ADMINISTRATION)

 

V.      DECISION MAKING AND POLICY FORMULATION

These particular topics illustrate further the impact of the rational model to decision making and policy formulation and see how these have been treated by later writers.

The work of Simon through Administrative Behavior (1957a) is considered the study of decision making in organizations. He argued that decision making is the core of administration. Decision making is essentially the same as management itself. This is a new focus in contrast from the past view on decision making wherein it is concentrated at the highest organizational levels. This renewed decision making process involves from the decision of the chief executive to undertake a new program to the decision of the operative employee to carry out a given order. This process consists of three basic elements in decision making: a. Intelligence – involves scanning the environment and identifies occasions to make a decision; b. Design – involves finding or developing alternative courses of action; and c. Choice – involves selecting the alternative with the best chance of success.

THE INTELLECTUAL HERITAGE

Presented as a report by J. B. Nangpuhan II (MPA Student) for the class (Organization and Society) of Dr. H. G. Kim at Chonnam National University, Korea on Sept. 27, 2010.

 

SUMMARY

(In my group, we have divided the chapter into two and I will be presenting pages 26-39)

MAX WEBER (1864-1920)

He is a German sociologist and best known to students of public administration for his analysis of rational bureaucracy which had a broad impact on the social sciences. Among the three writers whose works are examined in this chapter, Weber has clearly had the most direct impact on theories of public organization although his influence was felt fairly late in the development of the field. 

TOWARD A GENERAL THEORY OF PLANNING: TENTATIVE CONCLUSIONS (Hansen Ozbekhan)

Presented by J. B. Nangpuhan II (MPA Student) to Dr. C. G. Song, Professor of Public Administration at Chonnam National University, South Korea under 'Introduction to Public Administration'. Date presented: 15Dec2010. 

 

SUMMARY

 

I: The real intention of the author is to develop approaches leading to a general theory. This allows him to organize the descriptive conclusions about planning, environment, purpose, and plan.

 

1.       Planning

It can be defined in its greatest generality as a future-directed decision process. The fundamental characteristic of this process is that it is conscious and rational. It represents acting on some object, defined as environment. Such action is undertaken for the purpose of effecting changes in the environment. Planning, therefore, can be said to include the following: (1) perception of the environment; (2) definition of the purpose of the changes one wishes to effect in the environment; (3) design of the acts whereby the environment will be altered.

THE POLICY ORIENTATION (Harold D. Laswell)

Presented by J. B. Nangpuhan II (MPA Student) to Dr. C. G. Song, Professor of Public Administration at Chonnam National University, South Korea under 'Introduction to Public Administration'. Date presented: 13Oct2010. 

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Key Terms:

1.       policy – 정책

2.       models – 모델

 

OVERVIEW ON POLICY ORIENTATION

For several years new trends toward integration have been gaining strength in America. This includes more rigid curriculum and devising survey courses to be introduced to students for them to learn broad fields of knowledge and to prepare the way for a vision of the whole. In the realm of policy, more attention has been given to planning, and to improving the information on which staff and operational decisions are based. There has been more awareness of the policy process as a suitable object of study in its own right, primarily in the hope of improving the rationality of the flow of decision.

THE ELEMENTS OF DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION (Edward W. Weidmer)

This paper was presented by J. B. Nangpuhan II (MPA Student) to Dr. C. G.  Song, Professor of Public Administration at Chonnam National University, South Korea. This topic is under 'Introduction to Public Administration'. Date presented: 15Dec2010.

SUMMARY

 

Key Terms:
·         Development – 개발
·         Change – 변경

INTRODUCTION

A decade ago, development administration was an unfamiliar and awkward label. Today, it is a term that identifies the professional interest of a substantial portion of the scholars of public administration and related disciplines. Since 1960, hundreds of articles and dozens of books have appeared on one or another aspect of development administration. It is now an accepted problem orientation in the social sciences. Let us look into certain developments in administration and the influence of these developments.

THE LACK OF A BUDGETARY THEORY (by: V.O. Key, Jr., 1940)

Presented by J. B. Nangpuhan II (MPA Student) to Dr. C. G. Song, Professor of Public Administration at Chonnam National University, South Korea under 'Introduction to Public Administration'. Date presented: 24Nov2010.

SUMMARY

 

Key Terms:
·         Budget – 예산
·         Economy – 경제
·         Public interest – 공공의 이익 

INTRODUCTION

On the most significant aspect of public budgeting, i.e., the allocation of public expenditures among different purposes so as to achieve the greatest return, American budgetary literature is singularly arid. Nevertheless, the absorption of energies in the establishment of the mechanical foundations for budgeting has diverted attention from the basic budgeting problem (on the expenditure side), namely: On what basis shall it be decided to allocate x dollars to activity A instead of activity B?

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