Understanding Administration
Administration comes from the Latin: Ad = intensive, and ministrare = serving, helping, meeting. This term refers to the activity or attempt to assist, serve, lead, or manage all the activities in achieving a goal.
Understanding Administration in the Indonesian language there are 2 (two):
In a narrow sense, comes from the Dutch: “Administratie”, namely as office administration activities (note-note, typing, copying, etc.). This activity is in English called: clerical works (FX.Soedjadi, 1989).
In broad terms, derived from English “Administration”, which is a process of cooperation between two or more people based on a certain rationality to achieve common goals that have been determined (SP Siagian, 1973)
Here are some of the sense of administration according to the experts:
* The process is generally found on all business groups, government or private, civilian or military, large or small (White, 1958).
* Work groups cooperate together in order to complete the task (Simon, 1958).
* Guidance, leadership and supervision of groups of individuals to achieve common goals (Newman, 1963).
* In a broad sense according Musanef (1996:1) in his book Human Resources Management in Indonesia said that the administration is a group of human activities through regular stages and led effectively and efficiently, using the means necessary to achieve the desired objectives.
In the implementation, development and administration tasks that have commonly referred to as administrative functions, as expressed by experts such as Henry Faysol, Harold Koontz, George R. Terry and others, including the functions of planning, organizing up to the supervisory function.
One form of identification in a broad sense, among others, mentions simple: that the administration is the whole process of implementing a series of activities carried out by two or more people involved in some form of joint efforts to achieve a predetermined goal. Despite the simple formulation, understanding and equipment has
a wide range of activities planned throughout the process and involve all members of the group.
While in the narrow sense, as suggested by Soewarno Handayaningrat (1996:2), in his book “Introduction to Science Studies of Administration and Management”, this term contains the purpose of an activity that includes record-notes, correspondence, light bookkeeping, typing typing, agenda and administrative technicalities.
Based on the above, the administration is the process of organizing the work done together to achieve those objectives. Both in broad and narrow, operate in realized through management functions, which consists of planning, organizing, implementing, and monitoring.
So the administration is to operate, and management are the people who organize the work. So the combination of the two is the implementation of the work done by the people together (cooperation) to achieve a predetermined goal.
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