#posdcorb

Public Administration (Meaning and Definitions)

This view is more or less similar to the managerial view.

This view about the scope of Public Administration was advocated by Luther Gullick.

Gullick explained that administration consists of ‘seven‘ elements.

POSDCoRB; each letter implies one element of administration.

P – PLANNING 

Broad outline of the things that needs to be done and

Methods to accomplish the purpose

O – ORGANISING

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A memo prepared while he was a member of the Brownlow Committee, in his piece "Notes on the Theory of Organization". Luther Gulick is asked verbally "What is the work of the chief executive? and What does he do?" POSDCORB is the answer of these questions, "considered to call devotion to the numerous functional elements of the work of a chief executive because 'management' and 'administration' have lost all exact content." According to Gulick, the elements are:

P = Planning

O = Organizing

S = Staffing

D = Directing

CO = Co-ordinating

R = Reporting

B = Budgeting