Luther Gulick

Quotes

• “It is appropriate at the outset of this discussion to consider the reasons for and the effect of the division of work. It is sufficient for our purpose to note the following factors.”
• “The theory of organization... has to do with the structure of co-ordination imposed upon the work-division units of an enterprise.”
• “The efficiency of a group working together is directly related to the homogeneity of the work they are performing.”
• “What is the work of the chief executive? What does he do?”
• “[POSDCORB as]... statement of the work of a chief executive is adapted from the functional analysis elaborated by Henri Fayol in his "Industrial and General Administration." It is believed that those who know administration intimately will find in this analysis a valid and helpful pattern, into which can be fitted each of the major activities and duties of any chief executive.”
• “Students of administration have long sought a single principle of effective departmentalization just as alchemists sought the philosophers' stone. But they have sought in vain. There is apparently no one most effective system of departmentalism.”

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