Holdtime 7/9

Question 1

Hvilke teoretiker har sagt følgende om efficiency: “The Gospel of Efficiency […] In the Middle Ages they were such words as faith, grace, and God; in the eighteenth century they were such words as reason, nature, and rights; during the past fifty years in America they have been such words as cause, reaction, scientific, expert, progress—and efficient. Efficiency is a natural ideal for a relatively immature and extrovert culture”?

Answer 1

Dwight Waldo

Question 2

Hvilke teoretiker har sagt følgende om efficiency: “In the design of administrative organizations, as in their operation, over-all efficiency must be the guiding criterion. Mutually incompatible advantages must be balanced against each other, just as an architect weighsthe advantages of additional closet space against the advantages of a larger living room”?

Answer 2

Herbert A. Simon

Question 3

Hvilke teoretiker har sagt følgende om PA-dikotomien: “The assessment and raising of taxes, for instance, the hanging of a criminal, the transportation and delivery of the mails, the equipment and recruiting of the army and navy, etc., are all obviously acts of administration; but the general laws which direct these things to be done are as obviously outside of and above administration. The broad plans of governmental action are not administrative; the detailed execution of such plans is administrative”?

Answer 3

Woodrow Wilson

Question 4

Hvad er sammenhængen (og forskellen) mellem effektivitet og efficiency?

Answer 4

Hvis et givent input bliver udført som ønsket, er der høj efficiens, hvis det påvirker det endelige mål godt, er der høj effektivitet