Herbert Simon: Administrative Behavior

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Abstract

Administration is ordinarily discussed as the art of “getting things done.” Emphasis is placed upon processes and methods for insuring incisive action. Principles are set forth for securing concerned action from groups of men. In all this discussion, however, not very much attention is paid to the choice which prefaces all action – to the determining of what is to be done rather than to the actual doing. It is with this problem – the process of choice which leads to action – that the present study is concerned. In this introductory chapter the problem will be posed and a survey made of the topics to be taken up in the remaining chapters.

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