Book Description

The science of administration attempts to discover and impart, principles of administration. Principles can mean either of two things, ie, ethical nature and generalization of behaviour. The first is of an ethical nature, the administration may say we ought to do this list of things in this way. Here the ethical impulse is paramount. Thus, we ought to admit every child that is sick and brought to our door. Or, we ought not let a patient leave, until we absolutely certain that he is capable of returning to work tomorrow morning, at least to get as strong as he was before he was afflicted. These are standards. Ambitions, expressions of what is supremely good in the conduct of the enterprise. There is a relationship between ethical principles and the principles as generalisation of cause and effect. The principle, as ethics may set the purpose; the generalisation may assist in identifying the means whereby the purpose may be achieved. According to Finer, following are the principles of administration. From the apprehension of purpose, from its absorption, flows directly the oneness of leadership that gives form to the whole aggregate of people whose skills are needed for its fulfillment. Leadership e may take the form of a single executive or a duo or a triumvirate and There are numerous forms of collective administrative bodies. One may be final leader to ultimate decisions. Oneness implies that all the personnel are members. The first requirement is the right of people to have positions of authority, or in other words, the of the authority of the situation. This returns to the problem that is to say, the selection and promotion leading to high places. However, there are persons involved in all the techniques of persuasion and command; orientation periods, manuals of policy, periodical conferences, social festivities; the administrator rounds in the manner appropriate to the personality of the particular collection and human beings on the staff and individual counselling. It would be idle to protract that list of the techniques of association of the art, as it were, of making love to other people.