ABSTRACT
Scientific management and public administration are related aspects of a common phenomenon: a general movement to extend the methods and the spirit of science to an ever-widening range of man's concerns. The theories developed by the scientific management movement have influenced the development of public administration, and some recent writings suggest an even closer union between the two in the future: the notion of a "pure theory of organization" or "Republic of Administration" leaves little barrier between them. The general resemblance in spirit and outlook between scientific management and public administration has been sufficiently observed; but the practical and professional implications of this point of view should be noted. Both public administration and scientific management stand midway between the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century notion of a natural harmony of nature and the "wide-open world" conceived in certain recent philosophies.
