Management

Functions
 Introduction of POSDCoRB:
• Created by Luther Gulick and Lyndall
Urwick in their “Papers on the Science of
Administration” (1937)
• Based of Fayol’s14 Principles of
Management,
• Outlines the 7 functions of the executives
• Developed as a means to structure and
analyze management activities; it sets a
 Introduction of POSDCORB:
According to Gullick the POSDCoRB
activities are common to all
organizations. They are the common
problems of management which are
found in different agencies regardless of
the nature of the work they do.
POSDCoRB gives unity, certainty, and
Luther Gulick asks rhetorically
"What is the work of the chief
executive? What does he do?

POSDCoRB is the answer "

 Planning
Budgeting Organizing

POSDCoRB
Reporting Staffing

Coordinating Directing
 Coordinati
Is the ng
synchronization and
integration of activities,
responsibilities, and command
control and structures to ensure that
the resources of an organization are
used most efficiently in pursuit of
the specified objectives. It is also
Relationship with other
functions:
Planning integrating the
and various plans through
Coordination mutual discussion,
exchange of ideas.
Relationship with other
functions: when a manager
groups and assigns
Organizing
and various activities to
Coordinati subordinates, and
on when he creates
department’s
co-ordination
Relationship with other
functions:A manager should bear
Staffing in mind that the right no.
and of personnel in various
Coordinati positions with right type
on of education and skills
are taken which will
 Relationship with other
functions: The purpose of giving
Directing orders, instructions &
and guidance to
Coordination the subordinates is
served
only when there is a
 Reporti
ng
Reporting is keeping those to whom
the executive is responsible
informed as to what is going on,
which thus includes keeping himself
and his subordinates informed
through records, research and
 Budgeting

Is simply balancing your

expenses with your income. If
they don’t balance and you
spend more than you make, you
will have a problem.
 Criticism
The critics pointed out that the
POSDCoRB activities were neither
the whole of
administration, nor even the most
important
part of it. The POSDCoRB view
overlooks
the fact that different agencies are
A major defect is that the
POSDCoRB view does not contain
any reference to the formulation
and implementation of the policy.
Therefore, the scope of
administration is defined very
narrowly, being too inward looking
and too conscious of the top
References:
http://www.vectorstudy.com/management theories/POSDORB.htm
http://www.vectorstudy.com/management theories/POSDORB.htm
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Daft, R. L., & Marcic, D. (2010). Understanding Management (7thEd).
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Thinking government: ideas, policies, institutions, and public-sector management.
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