PAP 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Engineering, Charismatic Authority, Organizational Behavior

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 3370
• Professor: jonathanpaquette

Document Summary

Classical theory of organization: practice and concept of bureaucracy, bureaucracy as an ideal type, the division of labour, max weber, f. w taylor and scientific management. Bureaucracy treated as an inherent feature of modernity. Bureaucracy as a practice and an idea ** Bureaucracy as a practice involves being the machinery of government. Bureaucracy as an idea involves conceptualizing its features and behaviors. According to weber: bureaucracy authority: is presented as being superior to traditional and charismatic forms of authority, two elements form bureaucratic authority. 1 office are fixed and governed by rules. 2 qualification (what matters: rules and norms serve as basis for rule under bureaucratic authority, rational legal authority precipitates depersonalized relations of ruling, allegiance is owned to rules rather than individuals. Weber identifies two kinds of rationality in bureaucracy. 1 formal rationality: represents calculated technique for the purposes of measurements (calculate measure outcomes)