SOC 301 Study Guide - Final Guide: Quality Circle, Co-Determination, American Airlines
23 Jul 2018
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Human relation school: technical specialization- what"s been your focus, so you can get a job. In the 1930s max weber, a german sociologist, wrote a rationale that described the bureaucratic form as being the ideal way of organizing government agencies. Max weber"s principles spread throughout both public and private sectors. Even though weber"s writings have been widely discredited, the bureaucratic form lives on. Weber noted six major principles: a formal hierarchical structure. Each level controls the level below and is controlled by the level above. A formal hierarchy is the basis of central planning and centralized decision making: management by rules. Controlling by rules allows decisions made at high levels to be executed consistently by all lower levels: organization by functional specialty. Work is to be done by specialists, and people are organized into units based on the type of work they do or skills they have: an up-focused or in-focused mission.
