although the real battle between the human relations approach and traditional mechanistic scientific management on the appropriateness of organizational structure would not be joined until the post-world war ii period there was grat activity on the organizational front especially reorganization reorganization would be a recurring theme in the practice and literture of public administration in later years scholars such as harold seidman frederick c.mosher and peter l. szanton would produce signficant works arguing the merits objectives and results of numerous reorganization efforts in government .but the first great example of reorganization was the effort recommended by the president committee on administrative managemnt in 1936-1937