Critical Contribution of Max Weber Towards Ob

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Max Weber a German sociologist propounded the theory called principle of bureaucracy – a theory related to authority structure and relations in the 19th century. According to him, bureaucracy is the formal system of organization and administration designed to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. He suggested an ideal model for management as bureaucratic approach. He gave emphasis on division of labor, hierarchy, detailed rules and impersonal relations. Principles of bureaucratic theory 1) Job specialization: - Jobs are divided into simple, routine and fixed category based on competence and functional specialization. The same can be seen in today’s organizations as well, we have departments like administration, operations, human resource etc taking care of different departments in the organization. 2) Authority hierarchy: - Officers are organized in a hierarchy in which higher officer controls lower position holders i.e. superior controls subordinates and their performance of subordinates and lower staff could be controlled. In today’s organization we can see the hierarchy in the form of agents reporting into team leaders who report into assistant managers and who further report into managers and so on and so forth. 3) Formal selection: - All organizational members are to be selected on the basis of technical qualifications and competence demonstrated by training, education or formal examination. Today an organization recruits its employees from specialized collages like engineering collages for engineers, business schools for managers etc. The employees are selected post assessment of their skill set through various selection procedures. 4) Formal rules and regulations: - To ensure uniformity and to regulate actions of employees, managers must depend heavily upon formal organizational rules and regulations. Thus, rules of law lead to impersonality in

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