It takes a lot of group effort. Gulick and Urwick also created an acronym for the job done by the CEO, but it also goes hand in hand with administrative principles. “POSDCORB (Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting and Budgeting)” is not just for the CEO or senior management, but for everyone involved in ensuring the organization is run efficiently and correct. These administrative principles also sparked ideas in other writers to further the development of principles and design management and organization theory. James D. Mooney was a writer who created additional principles, such as “coordination, scalar (hierarchical) levels of authority and responsibility, delegation, staff work, and function (duties)” (Liebler & McConnell, 2012). Gulick lived from 1892 to 1993; he applied these principles of administrative management theory to government (Vonderach). Fayol was born in 1841 in France where he worked for a coal miner, and died in 1925 (Vonderach). Mooney was born in 1884 and studied mechanical engineering and also wrote a book that was a “significant contribution to administrative management
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