PAP 2320 Lecture Notes - Frederick Winslow Taylor, Midvale Steel, Public Administration

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 2320
• Professor: Joshua Zaato

Document Summary

Lecture 5 (jan 21rst): structuralist, humanist, and other approaches to public management. Structuralist theories view workers in administrative and bureaucratic organizations as little more than interchangeable parts cogs in a machine lubricated by money. Hence, the aim of the org theory is to devise creative methods, means, and structures within which work can be rationalized so as to maximise org theory. Little or no regard is given to the needs, aspirations, and desires of workers, who are expected to marginalise and subdue their interests to the bureaucratic machine. Structuralist theories are therefore mechanical in nature, with one main objectivfe of maximizing the 3es: efficiency, economy, efficacy. Structuralist theories rely on a particular view of human nature that suggest that. People are only motivated by material and financial gain. That workers require strict regime of rules and regulation, determined and clearly spelled out by management in order to function at maximum efficiency.