Wilson's single piece of scholarship, which received virtually no attention in its day, is ascribed to the advent of public administration as a"discipline" or educational endeavor what Waldo(1980) later called the"self-conscious" study of public administration. However, it is important that Wilson's discourse was clearly set in the context of practice, not study It endorsed rational, instrumental behavior and was followed by a series of writings from others advancing the same prescriptions for administrative behavior, or the practice of public administration, which were cumulatively labeled"classical" or orthodox" theory. Considered among the most notable are the deliberations of Frederick Taylor(1911) and his call for cientific management, a doctrine supporting a reliance on"science" for determining the best way of performing jobs and then ensuring, for the sake of efficiency, that the jobs are performed according to that "one bes Way”