Max Weber's Theory Of Bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy is a legal rational organization. Max Weber is known as the father of bureaucratic management. He has given this theory and tried to explain how it works. For this reason, he gave some principles and those are:
1. Impersonal order
2. Rules
3. Sphere of competence
4. Hierarchy
5. Personal and public ends
6. Written documents
So this elements are the basic characteristics of bureaucracy; we can say that Weber’s ‘ideal type’ construct of bureaucracy the most striking and thought provoking idea is his belief that impersonal order should orient the action bureaucrats both in the issuance of commands to subordinates and their obedience to them. In Rules we can easily imagin about rationality of bureaucracy. Spare of competence is
(2) a condition in which informal controls effect a consistent modification of formal goals.
So Seznick has tried to give a theory by criticizing bureaucratic management of Max Weber.
Gouldner: Gouldner researched on Weber’s ‘ideal type of Bureaucracy’ and provide clues to some unanswerable questions. Gouldner [1954:216-17] distinguishes 3 sub-classes of bureaucracy each with its peculiar traits: 1.Mock bureaucracy 2.Repesentative bureaucracy 3.Punishment bureaucracy
In Mock bureaucracy rules and regulation imposed by third party. Here use of power is made properly because of the control of third party. In representative Bureaucracy is both superior and subordinate accept and support the rule as they confer to their value. About representative bureaucracy Clegg and Dunkerley [1980:161]
The hall mark of the structure is not punishment but a continual process of socialization to reduce the potential for deviant behavior.’
In punishment bureaucracy rules and regulation are taken to punish opponent class. For this types of things bureaucracy can’t be perform performed properly.
Bennis: Bennisis another critic of Weber’s bureaucratic management. He has tried to make his criticism from two aspects. Those are: 1. Reciprcity 2. Adoptability

Receprocity: In this theory Bennis wanted to say that when the amount of client is few then bureaucracy and provide better performance and on the other hand when the amount of client is very high then bureaucracy cannot perform well. On that time people do not get good service from organization. That is why Benniscriticized ideal type of

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