For a comprehensive, yet fresh and fascinating look at the lives and scholarship of the leading theorists in the field, Mastering Public Administration is a wonderful starting point for more in-depth and nuanced study. With each chapter focusing on one seminal figure, Brian Fry and new coauthor Jos Raaschelders weave an insightful narrative the explores and analyzes the research, writing, thinking, theorizing, and long-term impact of such luminaries as Max Weber, Frederick Taylor, Mary Parker Follett, Dwight Waldo, and now new to this second edition Charles Lindblom.
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Mastering nothing but filling space and boring students,
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This review is from: Mastering Public Administration: From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
This book is filled with promise. I mean who would not want to master such a difficult topic and improve practice in the arena of administration? However, this book only offers a few glimpses into a select group of authors who were able to shape how a few select portions of administration were thought about from earlier times until now. This is important, but it does little to help the average administrator their responsibilities. It might help scholars master their topic, but not a government employee master their work. It is also hard to read and very technical. So get it and be forewarned.
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Self referential,
This review is from: Mastering Public Administration: From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
This text is what happens when you write in a vaccuum. With only a few exceptions, most of the content was extraordinarily self referential and discussed theory in a way that all but abandoned their applications in public administration. Fry should consider cliff noting his own text as an excercise to stop talking in circles.
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To include the works of Max Weber in a volume on the study and practice of public administration in the United States may have seemed somewhat unusual at the time the first edition of this book was published, but, in view of the vast literature that has appeared on his work since then, Weber is clearly back in fashion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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To include the works of Max Weber in a volume on the study and practice of public administration in the United States may have seemed somewhat unusual at the time the first edition of this book was published, but, in view of the vast literature that has appeared on his work since then, Weber is clearly back in fashion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
administrative state, shop management, great stupidity, administrative theory, elusive phenomenon, metropolitan organization, political rationality, second relay assembly test room, first relay assembly test room, heretical heir, elephantine problem, nonprogrammed decision making, complex formal organizations, modern organization theory, net positive balance, circular response, partisan mutual adjustment, public administration scholars, functional foremen, decision premises, comparative public administration, synoptic model, new public administration, multilateral controls, disjointed incrementalism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mastering Public Administration, Scientific Management, New York, Dwight Waldo, Max Weber, Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett, United States, Luther Gulick, Administrative Behavior, Chester Barnard, Western Electric, Creative Experience, Functions of the Executive, Herbert Simon, Dynamic Administration, American Political Science Review, Strategy of Decision, Human Relations, New State, Journal of Management History, Market System, Theory of Organization, Free Press, New Haven Browse Sample Pages:
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