ADMINISTRATION:

SCIENCE, THEORY AND

PRACTICE.

Diana Martínez & Natalia Dávila

Definition of Administration:

Nature & Purpose.

Administrators should do the planning, organization, direction, control and personal integration.

It applies to all kind of organizations.

Every level of organization

Make a Surplus.

The administration wants productivity, which implies efficiency and efficacy.

Process of designing and

maintaining and environment in

which the individuals, working in

groups in an efficient way, will

reach selected objectives.

Definition of Administration:

Nature and Purpose

Functions of the Administration

Clear

Organization

Useful

Organization

Analysis of the

Administration

Administrative Functions:

oPlanning

oOrganization

oDirection

oControl

oPersonal Integration

External Environment:

Economical factors

Technological factors

Social factors

Political and Ethic factors

Administration as an essential

element of all organizations.

Big Organizations Small

Organizations

Lucrative

Enterprises

Non-Lucrative

Enterprises

Administrative skills

and Organizational

hierarchy.

There exists 4

elemental skills

that administrators

should have:

Conceptual skills

The main goal of all

administrators is to

generate utilities.

Goals of all

administrators and

organizations.

Managers may create and

environment in which the

employees can accomplish

their goals in the least amount

of time, money and materials.

Admiration companies?

Technology Globalization

The internet

connects people and their

companies.

Most companies

have an international

presence, so the

administrators have to adopt

and international

perspective.

Productivity, efficiency & efficacy.

Product

Materials

Productivity is the

arithmetic reason of

product to materials, in

a certain time, with

high quality.

Efficacy is the

accomplish of a

goal.

Efficiency is the

accomplish of a goal

with the minimum

resources.

Productivity

Administration: Is it science or art?

Frederick Taylor

Father of the scientific

administration.

Apprentice, worker, foreman,

mechanical worker, and

engineering director.

Principal Foundations:

Practical rules for scientific

precepts (organized

knowledge)

Harmony in a group.

Cooperation between human

beings instead of an chaotic

individualism.

Maximum production

Development of workers full

capacity.

Henry Fayol

Fayol identified 14 principles

which some of them are:

Authority and

Responsibility

Orders

Hierarchy

Body Spirit

Elton Mayo

Elton Mayo and

the Hawthorne

effect.

Henry Mintzberg

He made the conclusion that the administrators don't make the classic activities, but also

these ones:

Interpersonal Rolls:

- Representation

- leader

- international rolls (with other people or institutions/business.)

Communication System

Communication is essential for every administration process, for many reasons:

The clients

Links the company to the external environment.

The selection, evaluation, and capacitating of the employers.

Functions of the Administrators

Planning

Organization

Direction

Control

Coordination

Philosophy in Administration.

Horacio Cerutti Guldberg

Quotes:

The capacity of cordinating social energies to accomplish one goal.

- Brook Adam

Key of Success

- Jimenez Castro.

To accomplish a goal by the effort of other people.

- George Terry

The direction of one social organism, and it's effectiveness on accomplih their goals, thanks to the hability of

controling their members.

-Koontz