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Title: Management - Bureaucracy
Description: Notes on Max Weber and Bureaucracy. Used in first year of accounting and finance degree in management module.
Description: Notes on Max Weber and Bureaucracy. Used in first year of accounting and finance degree in management module.
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Max Weber & Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy as a form of organization became more dominant from the 19th
century onwards
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He stated that there were three different types of authority in society:
1
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Traditional - established authority of institutions
3
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Principles of Bureaucracy
Work structures and relations:
• Hierarchy of graded responsibilities with vertical reporting relationships
and responsibilities
• Work is arranged in a detailed division of labour
• Roles are clearly defined with each individual having a highly specific role
• Work and individuals are co-ordinated and controlled by centrally imposed
rules and procedure
which are made and enforced by senior managers/administrators
• Ethic of “disinterestedness”
• Written documents are the basis of the management of the office
The employment relationship:
• Individuals are selected according to levels of technical qualification,
education and expertise
• Individuals are appointed not elected and promotions are determined by
someone senior
• There is a separation of office and office holder (position does not
“belong” to the individual)
• Career structure is provided based on the organizational hierarchy
• Tenure is for life with fixed salary, pension rights and associated social
status
Overall, bureaucracy can be defined as: the rational application of written
rules ensures the promotion
of legitimate authority and the effective and efficient functioning of the
organization
• Job satisfaction
• Opportunity for career
• Limitation of power and privilege
• Protection from civil liberty
Weber focussed on the administration of the whole organization, whereas Taylor
outlined a system of control over the completion of work
...
Instrumental rationality: “doing the thing right”
Substantive rationality: “doing the right thing”
Bureaucracy has always be criticised for the following reasons:
• Too much regulation and hierarchy
• Over cautious, procrastination, denial of responsibility
It was more heavily criticised in the 1980’s and 1990’s
Post-Bureaucracy
• Rules are replaced with consensus and dialogue based on personal influence
• Responsibilities assigned on merit rather than hierarchy
• People treated as individuals
• Boundaries of organisation are opened
Oticon
Oticon is a Danish company which manufactures hearing aids
...
Bureaucracy is still in existance today, although delayering has taken place, the
size and height of the hierarchy has been decreased
Title: Management - Bureaucracy
Description: Notes on Max Weber and Bureaucracy. Used in first year of accounting and finance degree in management module.
Description: Notes on Max Weber and Bureaucracy. Used in first year of accounting and finance degree in management module.