organizational structure The manage- rial approach to public administration promotes organization essentially along the lines of Max Weber's "ideal-type bureaucracy. It stresses the importance of functional specialization for efficiency. Hierarchy is then relied upon for e fective 14 Programs and functions coordination. are to be clearly assigned to organizational units. Overlap are to be minimized. Positions are to be classified into a rational scheme and pay scales are to be systematically derived the interests of economy and motivating employees to be effi cient. Selection of public administrators is to be made strictly on the basis of merit. They are to be politically neutral in their competence. Rela tionships among public administrators and public agencies are to be formalized in writing and, in all events, the public's business is to be 15 ered in a smooth, orderly fashion.