Reading in Public Administration A Synopsis of Relative Literature

This publication is the first in a series of synopses of literature on various subjects in the field of Public Admi- nistration. This publication contains two reviews dealing with organization theory. In the first, the synopisis of Chester I. Barnard's classical THE FUNCTIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE, which was written in 1938, the student will find delineated many of the concepts which govern present day organization theory. The techniques of group dynamics so extensively used. in social and industrial organizations, too, owe much to Barnard's theory of cooperation which is briefly exposed in this publication.