MAX WEBER(Administrative Thinkers)
MAX WEBER
In brief
Weber’s contribution to the study of bureaucracy can be summarized as :
· Max Weber, a broad-based scholar with academic interest spanning economic, history, politics, religion and society made a significant contribution to the analysis and understanding of bureaucracy. Today, there cannot be any study or discussion on bureaucracy without reference to Max Weber.
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Weber defined administration as exercise as authority and identified different forms of legitimacy viz., traditional, charismatic and legal and analyzed the nature of exercise of authority in ideal-type authority.
· Weber considered legal authority as rational and called it legal-rational. He considered bureaucracy, the institutional form of legal-rational authority, as the most appropriate to modern governments.
· He described in detail the characteristics of legal ration bureaucracy which is popularly known as Weberian Model of bureaucracy.
· Weber laid stress on legitimacy of legal-rational authority which is based on impersonal orders, rules, sphere of competence, hierarchy, written documents, technically qualified people and separation of personal and public ends.
· Weberian model of bureaucracy attracted criticism mainly on three grounds i.e. rationality, suitability of model to different places and changing times, and its ability to attain maximum efficiency.
· The core of criticism is on its emphasis on structure and neglect of human behavior. The model is described by some as a structural approach to organizations.
· The webwrian model has both positive and negative features. In assessing Weberian ideal type, the historical context of Germany of his time should be kept in mind.
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