PA211 Classical Theory

set of basic principles, concepts, assumptions, and procedures that determine the methods of recognizing, measuring, recording, and reporting as an entity's financial transactions.

• Planning

• Controlling

• Accounting

• Financing

_____________is the traditional theory, wherein more emphasis is on the organization rather than the employees working therein.

This is the whole personnel function of bringing in and training the staff and maintaining favorable conditions of work.

• Staffing

• Planning

• Accounting

• Directing

______this is the continuous task of making decisions and embodying them in specific and general orders and instructions and serving as the leader of the enterprise.

Establishment of the formal structure of authority through which work sub- divisions  are arranged , defined and coordinated for the defined objectives.

• Planning

• Organizing

• Controlling

• Directing

It is keeping informed those to whom the executive is responsible as to what is going on. This includes keeping oneself and one’s subordinates informed through records, research and inspection.

• Budgeting

• Reporting

• Planning

• Organizing

Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick supports Classical Theory as an art

• True

• False

•Studied in Columbia University,

•Served on the National Defense Council during the First World War

•He served as the administrator of the New York City for 2 years during 1954-56 and was also the president of the Institute of Public Administration, New York from 1962-82.

• TAYLOR

• LYNDALL URWICK

• LUTHER GULICK

• L. URWICK

The classical theory, the organization is considered as a machine and the human beings as different components/parts of that machine.

• True

• False

• Joke

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