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IS ADMINISTRATION
DEFINITIONS
According to Haimann, “Administration means overall determination of policies, setting of
major objectives, the identification of general purposes and lying down of broad programs and
projects”.
According to Newman, “Administration means guidance, leadership and control of the efforts
of the groups towards some common goals”.
The key to understanding of what administration means is clear from the following diagram.
PEOPLE
BASED ON ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ RUNNING‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐USING
The goal of administration is to ensure smooth running of the organizational processes by
coordinating people participating in the processes and providing them with information needed
for completing their assignments. Administration deals with gathering, processing and
communicating information. Practically, everybody working for an organization participates in
the administrative activities. Even those who do not hold any managerial position participate
when receiving written or oral instructions and reporting back on the outcome of their work.
Those who have managerial positions complete much more administrative activities for
example, they are engaged in planning of various processes and assigning resources to various
activities in the real world situations.
The administration is regulated by rules that prescribe who should be doing what and in what
order in each type of the processes. Rules can exist in a written form or as a tradition. They can
even be incorporated in computerized tools.
Prof. A. R. Somroo
Department of Education
Govt. Emerson College, Multan