Administrative thinkers / Anupama Puri Mahajan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sun Tzu: the art of war -- Kautilya: Arthashastra -- Woodrow Wilson: the study of administration -- James David Mooney: principles of organization -- Frederick Winslow Taylor: scientific management -- Henri Fayol: foundations of administrative management -- Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick: the science of administration -- Karl Marx: state and bureaucracy -- Samuel Krislov and Donal Kingsley: representative bureaucracy -- Gordon Tullock: the politics of bureaucracy -- Mary Parker Follett: constructive conflict and leadership -- Elton Mayo: human relation movements -- Chester I. Barnard: functions of the executive -- Herbert A. Simon: administrative behaviour -- Dwight Waldo: the administrative state -- F.W. Riggs: ecology of public administration -- Robert Allan Dahl: problem of science of administration -- Robert T. Golembiewski: public administration as developing discipline -- Abraham Maslow: need hierarchy theory -- Frederick Herzberg: hygiene and motivation factors -- Douglas McGregor: motivation and leadership -- Chris Argyris: integrating the individual and the organization -- Rensis Likert: systems management -- Peter F. Drucker: management -- James M. Buchanan: public choice theory (the calculus of consent) -- Elinor Ostrom: public choice theory-governing the commons -- Janet Vinzant Denhart and Robert B. Denhart: new public service -- Yehezkel Dror: public policymaking -- Postmodernism -- Poststructuralism -- Critical social theory.

"Administrative Thinkers offers a lucid and comprehensive account of the contributions of eminent theorists to the study of public administration and management. This textbook introduces its readers to the works of 32 esteemed thinkers in the field of administrative theories. It provides life sketches of all the thinkers along with an outline of their contributions and a critical discussion of their seminal work. With focused emphasis on individual thinkers, the book covers all the major administrative theories that have evolved over the last 600 years, such as the oriental, classical and administrative schools of thought, organizational humanism and public choice theories of administration"-- Provided by publisher.