GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick’s Principle of Management?
A
POSDCoRB
B
POCCC
C
Dichotomy
D
Bureaucracy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Initially, POSDCORB was envisioned in an effort to develop public service professionals. In Gulick’s own words, the elements are as follows: Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Co-Ordinating, Reporting and Budgeting.

Detailed explanation-2: -By the Gulick describe ten principles of organisation are: Division of work or specialisation; Bases of development organisation; Coordination through hierarchy; Deliberate coordination; Coordination through committee; Decentralisation; Unity of command; Staff and line; Delegation; and Span of control.

Detailed explanation-3: -POSDCORB which stand for: Planning, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting was firstly coined by Luther Gulick, a highly respected scholar and administrator whose nickname came to be the “Dean of American Public Administration” (Chalekian, 2013:1; Espy and Guy, 2017:193).

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