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Terminology conflict
Terminology conflict was raised by oliver sheldon in
1923 in his book the philosophy of management. The result of terminology conflict was emergence of three approaches:
1. Administration is above management.
management is primarily concerned with those operations leading the enterprise towards success within the broader framework set by administration.
Classical thinkers
Milward William spriegal
Oliver sheldon
Lansberg Ordway tead Florence
H. Brinton Milward
administration is primarily the process and agency used to establish the objective or purpose which an undertaking and its staff are to achieve; secondly, administration has
William Spriegal
administration is that phase of a business enterprise that concerns itself with the overall determination of institutional
followed
in
achieving
those
objectives.
Oliver Sheldon
Oliver Sheldon, a great English authority,
defines management as the function concerned in the execution of policy within the limits set up by administration and the employment of the organization for the particular objects before it, whilst administration is the function concerned in
Organizational levels
Policy formulation & objective determination Policy execution for objective achievement
influenced by the fact that administrative process in non-business activities was well developed as compared to management.
The most of the early contributors to management
thought studied managerial process in the business organizations comparatively at lower levels only. Therefore they could perceive the functions of management as limited to lower levels only.