Ode to Luther Gulick
Ode to Luther Gulick
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路德·古利克颂
DOI：
10.1177/00953990022019371
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
J. Bohte
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作者：
K. Meier;J. Bohte
早期的管理学者，如亨利·法约尔、莱达尔·乌尔维克和路德·古力克认为，劳动专业化和层级领导结构等原则将产生最佳的组织绩效。这一观点遭到了赫伯特·西蒙的抨击，他认为行政管理的原则是模糊和矛盾的。西蒙毁灭性的批评被广泛接受，学者们很快就把注意力从研究管理原则上转移开了。具有讽刺意味的是，在西蒙提出他的批评时，对许多管理原则的系统研究很少。在这项研究中，目标是将注意力重新集中在一个特定的管理原则上，即控制范围，这与路德·古里克关系最密切。在讨论了控制广度对他们理解组织行为的重要性之后，作者提出了将控制跨度与组织绩效联系起来的理论。他们通过使用德克萨斯州678个学区4年来的数据来检验公立学校人员之间的控制关系的跨度如何影响学生的表现，以检验他们的理论。研究结果表明，组织人员之间的控制关系广度显著影响学生的表现。
Early management scholars such as Henri Fayol, Lydal Urwick, and Luther Gulick argued that principles such as specialization of labor and hierarchical leadership structures would result in optimal organizational performance. This perspective was attacked by Herbert Simon, who argued that the principles of administrative management were vague and contradictory. Simon’s devastating critique was widely accepted, and scholars soon turned their attention away from studying the principles of management. Ironically, little systematic research existed on many of the principles of management at the time Simon leveled his critique. In this study, the goal is to refocus attention on a particular principle of management, span of control, most closely associated with Luther Gulick. After discussing the importance of span of control to their understanding of organizational behavior, the authors present a theory that links span of control to organizational performance. They test their theory by examining how span of control relationships among personnel in public schools influence student performance, using data on 678 Texas school districts over a 4-year period. The findings reveal that span of control relationships among organizational personnel significantly shape student performance.