Public Administration Scholars - Table of Introduction & Theories [UPSC Exam]

Public Administration is among the optional subjects for UPSC IAS Mains exam. It is a good optional subject for UPSC Civil Service Mains exam as the subject deals with governance and administrative theories. This article concentrates on briefly helping you understand the names of public administration scholars, a brief information on their background and an few important points on the important theories they were associated with.

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Public Administration Scholars – Introduction & Their Theories

The below table gives a list of 20 Scholars of Public Administration, a brief snippet on their background and important concepts they worked on.

Name Who Important Concepts
Abraham Maslow
1908-1970
American Psychologist and Motivation Theorist
  • Hierarchy of needs
  • Self-actualisation
  • Peak experiences
Chester, I. Barnard

1886-1961

American Executive and Management Thinker
  • Acceptance theory of authority and “Zone of Indifference”
  • Functions of the executive
Chris Argyris American Behavioural Theorist and Management Writer
  • Maturity – Immaturity theory
  • T-Group Techniques
  • Single loop and Double loop learning
  • Organisational learning
Douglas McGregor
1906-1964
American Social Psychologist and Management Consultant
  • Theory “X” and Theory “Y”
  • Management education from cosmology to reality
  • Transactional influence
Dwight Waldo

1913-2000

American Political scientist and “Defining figure” in public Administration
  • Public administration as political approach
  • Professional orientation to public administration
  • New Public Administration
Fred W. Riggs
1917-2008
Political Scientist and Administrative Model Builder
  • Prismatic society
  • Sala model of administrative
  • Development as diffraction and integration
Frederick Herzberg
1923-2000
American Psychologist and Management Consultant
  • Hygiene – Motivation theory
  • Job loading
  • Job-enrichment
Frederick Winslow Taylor
1865-1915
Engineer, Inventor and Consultant
  • Principles of scientific management
  • Functional foremanship
George Elton Mayo
1880-1949
Australian social Psychologist
  • Human relations approach to organizations
  • Hawthorne effect
  • Role of informal organizations and groups in affecting the behaviour of individuals at work
Henri Fayol
1841 – 1925
French Administrative Theorist
  • Principles of management
  • General theory of management
  • Gang plank jumping
Herbert A. Simon
1908-1970
American Psychologist and motivation Theorist
  • Administration as decision-making
  • Bounded rationality
  • Zone of acceptance
Karl Marx
1818-1883
German Revolutionary Philosopher and Political Economist
  • Bureaucracy as an exploitative class instrument
  • Materialistic interpretation of history
  • Alienation of bureaucracy
Kautilya
350 – 283 B.C.
Adviser to King Chandragupta Maurya and Ancient Indian Philosopher
  • Monarchy as the best form of government
    Absolute powers to King
  • Saptanga theory of elements of state
  • Principles of public administration
Luther Gulick
1892-1993
American Expert on Public Administration
  • Structure-based ideologies of organization
  • POSDCORB as functions of executive
Mary Parker Follett
1868-1933
American Political Scientist, Social Worker and Management Consultant
  • Constructive conflict
  • Integration
  • Depersonalizing orders
Max Weber
1864 – 1920
German Sociologist and Political Scientist
  • Form of authority
  • Legal-rational bureaucracy
  • Protestant ethic
Peter Drucker
1909-2005
American Management Thinker, Professor and Consultant
  • Management by objectives
  • Restructuring Government or New Public Management
  • Knowledge society and knowledge workers
Rensis Likert
1903 – 1981
American Organisational Psychologist and Educator
  • Management systems
  • Linking pin model
Woodrow Wilson
1856-1924
Former President of America and Political Scientist
  • Significance of study of administration as science
  • Politics – administration dichotomy
  • Public administration as ‘Government in action’
Yehezkel Dror Israeli Political Scientist and Pioneer in policy studies
  • Societal direction system as a mega-knowledge system
    “Optimal Model” of policy making
  • Paradigms of policy science

 

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