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THE EFFECT OF DECENTRALIZATION ON THE MANAGERIAL FUNCTIONS OF PLANNING, DIRECTING, AND CONTROLLING
Abstract
From time to time much of the management literature has been devoted to an examination of the pros and cons of centralization and decentralization in American business organizations. Few aspects of management are more important than the pattern through which responsibility and authority are dispersed throughout an organization.Most every business organization has elements of both centralization and decentralization. In fact, some management writers feel that a corporation must have some elements 1 of both in order to exist. The following comment by Henri Fayol concurs with this viewpoint: 2Centralization is not a system of administration, which is good or bad in itself, and can be adopted or discarded at will; it is always present to some extent, so that the question of centralization or decentralization is simply one of degree--the problem is to find out what is the best degree of centralization for a given undertaking.
Subject Area
Business administration
Recommended Citation
TALLENT, DWAINE REED, "THE EFFECT OF DECENTRALIZATION ON THE MANAGERIAL FUNCTIONS OF PLANNING, DIRECTING, AND CONTROLLING" (1970). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI7103659.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI7103659