Book Reviews and Notices : Administration: The Art and Science of Organization and Management. BY ALBERT LEPAWSKY. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1949. Pp. xii, 669. $4.75 text.)

• Published date: 01 December 1949
• Author: G. Homer Durham
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200453
• Date: 01 December 1949
• Subject Matter: Articles

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staff

of

generalists ...

to

strengthen

both

the

offices

of

the

Secretary

of

Defense

and

that

of

the

President....

[It

should]

play a

vigorous

and

positive

role

and

not

be

content

merely

to

review

questions

that

are

referred

to

it.&dquo;

As

head

of

the

Economic

Cooperation

Administration

Paul

G.

Hoff-

man

works

under

a

mandate

from

the

Congress

to

make

maximum

use

of

the

services

and

facilities

of

existing

agencies.

His

paper

shows

how

heavy

an

impact

ECA

has

on

the

national

administrative

establishment,

parties

larly

through

its

relations

with

the

Departments

of

State,

Treasury,

De-

fense,

Commerce,

Agriculture

and

Labor.

Writing

on

&dquo;National

Admin,

istration

and

the

United

Nations

System,&dquo;

Walter

R.

Sharp

explains

how

vitally

the

success

of

the

United

Nations

and

of

the

related

specialized

agencies

depends

upon

the

adequacy

of

internal

national

administrative

arrangements

for

implementing

the

obligations

of

membership.

In

his

judgment

the

problem

cannot

be

solved

without

a

huge

increase

in

trained

administrative

personnel

and

without

extensive

research

with

respect

to

the

processes

of

national

participation

in

the

United

Nations

system.

These

brief

notes

should

afford

a

fair

clue

to

the

merits

of

the

vol-

ume.

Its

main

defect

consists

in

this:

not

a

single

one

of

the

several

authors

recognizes

that

international

commitment

is

a

matter

of

intensity

as

well

as

extensity.

All

alike

seem

oblivious

of

the

fact

that

the

size

of

the

various

administrative

problems

with

which

respectively

they

are

concerned

re-

flects

more

than

anything

else

the

timidity

and

half-heartedness

of

the

political

commitment

to

international

government

thus

far

made -

by

other

nations

no

less

than

our

own.

JOHN

A.

VIEG.

Pomona

College.

Administration:

The

Art

and

Science

of

Organization

and

Management.

BY

ALBERT

LEPAWSKY.

(New

York:

Alfred

A.

Knopf.

1949.

Pp.

xii,

669.

$4.75

text.)

Professor

Lepawsky’s

notable

work

is

a

distinct

and

welcome

contri-

bution.

It

continues

the

trend

towards

catholicity

in

the

study

of

ad-

ministration

insofar

as

the

author

attempts

to

deal

at

large

&dquo;with

a

field

of

human

experience

known

as

administration&dquo;

(p.

v.)

The

&dquo;field&dquo;

is

at

once

embraced

and

surrounded

with

a

wide

and

rich selection

from

authors

and

sources

ranging

from

&dquo;The

Instruction

of

Duauf&dquo;

(ca.

1300

B.

C.)

through

Woodrow

Wilson,

Goodnow,

and

Appleby.

En

route

one

encounters

Frank

B.

Gilbreth’s

therlbigs,

the

Constitution

of

Chow,

Leo

Tolstoy,

Lytton

Strachey,

Henry

Ford,

even

Yefin

Urzhumsky’s

&dquo;The

Problem

of

Diapers

in

Russia.&dquo;

Twenty

chapters

of

the

best

reading

in

the

field

are

presented

with

extreme

care,

insight,

and

skill

in

arrangement.