A Preliminary Statement of Principles of Planning and Control

Abstract

Although this paper attempts to deal in a preliminary fashion only with a portion of the theory of management, it is essentially a plea for more attention to fundamentals in management, to principles, to theory, and to a conceptual framework upon which we can develop the systematized knowledge which is necessary if we are to constitute a science of management. As such, it may appear to be an oversimplification of an extraordinarily complex process.