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Lucas Watson
Lucas Watson

Administrative Behavior



The need for an administrative theory resides in the fact that there are practical limits to human rationality, and that these limits are not static, but depend upon the organizational environment in which the individual's decision takes place. The task of administration is so to design this environment that the individual will approach as close as practicable to rationality (judged in terms of the organization's goals) in his decisions.




Administrative Behavior



It asserts that "decision-making is the heart of the administration, and that the vocabulary of administrative theory must be derived from the logic and psychology of human choice", and it attempts to describe administrative organizations "in a way that will provide the basis for scientific analysis".


If we recognize the forays made by the Chester I. Barnard upon the conceptualization of the Organizational framework as the first meaningful scratches; then the Administrative Behavior written by Herbert A. Simon in 1947 can be described as the first real attempt to build upon the dent made by Barnard. This book is a real structural explanation of organization. This explanation is the first behavioral framework of organization which deviated from Gullick, Waldo and likes who were more concerned with the mechanical designing of the Organizational structure and its principles.


This criticism is much more based upon the mechanical approach taken by the classical administrative theorists than upon the concepts per se. The book accepts the usefulness of the principles of administrative theory as the proverbs but refuses to recognize them as principles.


Here Simon recognizes the role of various limits of the individuals and organizations which limits the usefulness of the principles postulated by the classical administration theorists. The concept of free will, purpose and power of choice proposed by Barnard seems to be the basis from where Simon draws his thoughts and says that there is the limit upon the rationality of the individuals. Hence, they cannot behave as per the rationality principles of classical administrative theorists.


Further, while discussing the psychology of administrative behavior Simon states that it is impossible for the behavior of a single isolated individual to attain a high degree of rationality. He postulates that actual behavior falls short of objective rationality in three ways:


Of the above three reasons, the second was of extremely high importance when Simon recognized the importance of personality traits in the determination of an individual's behavior. He postulated that there are a group of people who like to be lead, and there are others who like to lead.


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