I. Title: Administrative Development and Organization Theory
II. Instructor's name: Dr. Winfield H. Rose
Office location:
553 C Business Building South
Phone numbers: (270)762-2662(office);
fax: (270)762-2688
(270)762-0126 (home)
E-Mail: winfield.rose@murraystate.edu
Homepage:
http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/winfield.rose/main.htm
Office hours: 9:00
- 10:30 a.m. MWF
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. T
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Th (Fort Campbell)
III. Classroom locations and meeting times:
Section 01 (on campus):
BBS551, 6:00-9:00 p.m., Tuesdays, Aug. 26 - Dec. 16, 1997.
Section 93 (Fort Campbell):
2112 Indiana Avenue, Thursdays, Aug. 28 - Dec. 11, 1997.
IV. Prerequisites:
Relevant course work in
business or public administration or work experience.
V. Course purpose and objective:
An extensive analysis of
administrative and organization theory with special attention to the
public sector, its political context, and practical applications.
VI. Required Texts:
VII. Method of Instruction:
Seminar. Students
will be expected to read the assignments as given below and to come to
class prepared to discuss them; this includes being able to ask as well
as answer questions. It is the student's responsibility
to demonstrate familiarity with the assignment each class meeting.
VIII. Tests & Grading Procedures:
Two tests, a
mid-term and a final, both at regular class period. See schedule
of assignments.
(See "How to
Take Essay Exams" on my homepage.)
Grading: 35%
mid-term
20%: two book reviews (10%@)
35% final
10%: attendance and participation
IX. Requirements: (1) two exams.
(2) Class attendance and participation.
(3) Two book reviews due as indicated on schedule of assignments.
Instructions given later in this syllabus.
X. Relevant Web Sites:
Public
Administration Network
Highlights
in the History of Public Administration
Successories
The
Ultimate Government Guide
101st
Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, KY
Government
Executive
WhoWhere?
American
Society for Public Administration
Lycos
Government Guide
OSHA
Computerized Information System
National
Archives and Records Administration
To
Other Good Links
Topics
I. The Context of Public Management in the 1990's
II. Evolution of Managerial Ideology
III. Modern Managerial Perspectives
IV. Leadership
V. Decision Making
VI. Introduction to Organization Theory
Readings: (No pain, no gain.)
(Assignments not in texts or reprints or on the Internet may be found in the Waterfield and Sink Libraries.)
I. The Context of Public Administration in the 1990's:
(1) Sara Fritz, "New Breed of Workers."
U. S. News & World Report, September 3, 1979, pp. 35-38.
(2) Diedre Sullivan, "The PC Nineties: Decade
of Diversity." Career Futures, Fall 1991, pp. 35-38.
See also Rainforest
Education Center and PC
Primer.
(3) Daniel
Patrick Moynihan, "Defining Deviancy Down." The American Scholar,
Winter
1993, pp. 17-30.
(4) Philip K. Howard, "The Death of Common
Sense." U. S. News & World Report, January 30, 1995, pp.
57-61. Look up in Amazon.com.
(5) Duane Elgin and Robert Bushnell, "The
Limits to Complexity: Are Bureaucracies Becoming Unmanageable?" The
Futurist, December 1977, pp. 337-349.
(6) Arthur Scheslinger, The Disuniting
of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society. New York:
W. W. Norton, 1993. (Look up in Amazon
and then download book review only.)
(7) Reinventing
Government and the Government
Performance and Results Act of 1993
(passim).
(8) Melvin J. Dubnick, "Challenges to American Public Administration:
Complexity, Bureaucratization, and the Culture of Distrust."
II. Evolution of Managerial Ideology
(If you have taken POL 575, see your textbook, Public Personnel Systems by Robert D. Lee, pp. 44-49.) Also see Historical Background of Organizational Behavior (this is good).
(1) Frederick Taylor, The Principles of
Scientific Management. (New York: Harper Brothers, 1911), pp. 5-29.
(Search AltaVista . . . . and download.)
(2) Henri Fayol, "General Principles of Management."
(Search AltaVista . . . and download.) and
"The Administrative Theory in the State" in Gulick & Urwick, Papers
on the Science of Administration (New York: Institute
of Public Administration, 1937), pp. 99-114. (This book resulted
from Gulick's service on the Brownlow Committee.)
(3) Luther Gulick, "Notes on the Theory of
Organization." Gulick & Urwick, op. cit, pp. 3-13.
[If you enter this man into AltaVista you will get not him but his
father.]
(4) Chester Barnard, The Functions of the
Executive, chapters XV & XVI except pp. 240-252.)
(5) Lent D. Upson, "Being An Executive."
Dwight Waldo, ed., Ideas and Issues in Public Administration.
(New York: McGraw Hill, 1953), pp. 330-338. (This book is one of
the old classics and is well worth reading in its entirety.)
(6) Douglas McGregor: Search AltaVista;
go to #1: BOLA (Background); then click first icon at bottom of page for
Theory X and Y (download and read both).
(7) Charles Perrow, Complex Organizations,
chapters 2 and 3 except pp. 62-78.
III. Modern Managerial Perspectives
(1) Joseph L.
Bower, "Effective Public Management." Harvard Business Review
(HBR)
March/April 1977, pp. 131-140.
(2) Lau et al,
"The
Nature of Managerial Work in the Public Sector." Public AdministrationReview
(PAR), September/October 1980, pp. 513-520.
(3) Gabarro and Kotter,
"Managing Your Boss." HBR January/February 1980, pp. 92-100.
(4) C. Brooklyn Derr,
"Managing Organizational Conflict." California Management Review
Winter 1978, pp. 76-82.
(5) Theodore Caplow,
"Crisis Management." Managing An Organization, 2nd. ed., New
York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1983, pp. 37-40. (This entire
book is well worth reading.)
(6) Robert Behn, "Leadership
in an Era of Retrenchment" and Robert Biller, "Leadership Tactics for Retrenchment."
PAR November/December 1980, pp. 603-609.
(7) John P. Kotter,
"Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail." HBR March/April
1995.
(8) James E. Swiss,
"Adapting Total Quality Management (TQM) to Government." PAR July/August
1992, pp. 356-362.
(9) Robert S. Kravchuk,
"The New Connecticut: Lowell Weicker and the Process of Administartive
Reform." PAR July/August 1993, pp. 329-339.
IV. Leadership
(1) Terence R. Mitchell
and William G. Scott, "Leadership Failures, the Distrusting Public, and
Prospects for the Administrative State." PAR November/December 1987,
pp. 445-452.
(2) Michael S. Frank,
"The Essence of Leadership." Public Personnel Management (PPM)
fall 1993, pp. 381-390.
(3) Jameson W. Doig
and Erwin C. Hargrove, "Leadership and Political Analysis." Chapter
1 in Leadership and Innovation: Entrepreneurs in Government.
Johns Hopkins Univertsity Press, 1990 (abridged edition), pp. 1-22.
(This entire book is well worth reading.)
(4) Carl
von Clauswitz, "The Genius for War." Chapter III in On War.
London:Penguin Classics, 1968/1982, pp. 138-158. (Originally published
as Vom Kriege in German in 1832. This entire book is well
worth reading, especially by military personnel.)
(5) John D. Millet,
" Leadership." Chapter 2 in Management in the Public Service:
The Quest for Effective Performance. New York: McGraw Hill, 1954,
pp. 33-54.
(6) Douglas McGregor,
"Leadership." Part II in Leadership and Motivation.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1966, pp. 49-80.
(7) Karen J. Winkler,
"Eisenhower Revised: from a 'Do-Nothing to an Arch-Manipulator, a Low-Key
Leader." Chronicle of Higher Education, January 30, 1985,
pp. 5 et seq.
V. Decision Making
(1) Barnard, Ch. XIII.
(2) Banfield, "The
Decision-Making Schema." PAR, Autumn 1957, pp. 278-285.
(Enter Simon into AltaVista and Amazon . . . . .)
(3) Lindblom, "The
Science of Muddling Through." PAR, Spring 1959, pp. 79-88.
(4) Dror, "Muddling
Through - Science or Inertia?" PAR, September 1964, pp. 153-157.
See also Lindblom's reply immediately following.
(5) Etzioni, "Mixed
Scanning: A Third Approach to Decision-Making." PAR November/December
1968, pp. 385-392.
(6) Lindblom,
"Still Muddling, Not Yet Though." PAR November/December 1979, pp.
517-526.
(7) Edward J.
Woodhouse, "Decision Theory and the Governance of Technology." Teaching
Political Science, Summer 1987, pp. 171-178, especially 174-177.
(8) Kevin McKean,
"Decisions, Decisions." Discover, June 1985 pp. 22-31.
(9) Patrick
Chau, "Better Decision Making Through Expert Systems for Management."
SAM Advanced Management Journal, Autumn 1991, pp. 13-18.
For a more thorough treatment see Edward Brent, Expert
Systems, 1996, 43p. Also see Artificial
Intelligence. For an example of a government agency
using expert systems, see The
Asbestos Advisor.
(10) E. Scott Geller, "When
Group Decisions Go Bad." Also enter the term "groupthink"
into a search engine.
(11) Rogelberg, Barnes-Farrell,
& Lowe, "The Stepladder Technique: An Alternative Group Structure
Facilitating Effective Group Decision Making." Journal of Applied
Psychology v. 77 # 5, 1992, pp. 730-737.
(12) Irving L. Janis, "Who
Will Be Good Policymakers and Who Will Not?" and "Effective Leadership
Practices." Chs. 9 & 10 in Crucial Decisions: Leadership in
Policymaking and Crisis Management. (Free Press, 1989).
(13) Richard E. Neustadt,
"What to Do and How: A Summary." Ch. 13 in Thinking in Time:the
Uses of History for Decisionmakers. (Free Press, 1986).
Note: Both the above books are highly recommended in toto.
(14) Montgomery Van Wart,
"The Sources of Ethical Decision Making for Individuals in the Public Sector."
PAR November/December 1996, pp. 525-534.
VI. Introduction to Organization Theory
(1) Perrow, chapter
1, "Why Bureaucracy ?" (text)
(2) Max Weber, "Power,
Authority, and Imperative Control" and "The Types of Authority and Imperative
Coordination," pp. 152-157 and 324-366 in The Theory of Social
and Economic Organization (New York: Free Press), 1947.
Search AltaVista; you will find there are at least three Max Weber's, an
artist, a zoologist, and the sociologist (so don't get confused.)
If the listings have not been re-numbered, you will find what you need
at:
#11: Max Weber's Homepage
Book Review Assignment
Book reviews should adhere to the following format. In analyzing the book you should answer the following questions. Please repeat each question as you begin answering it.
(1) Does the author have a thesis, theory, or hypothesis he is testing? If not, what is the author's purpose in writing the book?
(2) What kinds of data, that is, what are the principal data the author brings to bear in the book? Is the book empirical, historical, intuitive, experiential, or a combination?
(3) Summarize his most important findings, conclusions, and positions. (This should constitute roughly half your paper.)
(4) What contribution, if any, does the book make to the study of administrative and/or organization theory?
(5) What is your general assessment of the book? Is it well written? Are the author's conclusions easay to follow? Is the argument clear? Would you recommend the book? Why?
These book reviews should be about ten pages in length and should conform to generally accepted standards of style. Any and all written work should be done in a highly competent and professional manner. Download Tips on Good Writing from my homepage and follow those instructions. If your paper contains too many mistakes in spelling, grammar, and punctuation it will not be accepted. Professional public administrators must know how to write well; if you do not know how to do so, you must learn. Now.
(2) Charles T. Goodsell, The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public
Administration Polemic.
Chatham House, third edition, 1994.