POLS 2250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Mechanical Engineering, Scientific Management, Lyndall Urwick
10 Feb 2014
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Week 2 chapter 2: public administration and organization theory: the structural foundation. Max weber- first person to study the emergence of the bureaucracy. German scholar- studying bureaucracy in the context of authority in any society- Theorized that there was three sources of authority- Under traditional authority- right to exercise authority is legitimated by such factors of : heredity, religious beliefs, or divine right- Charismatic authority- authority is based on outstanding personal characteristics of an individual- jesus, Legal or rational authority- authority is legitimated by rules and regulations obeyed by both the rulers and the ruled- obedience is not owed to a person, but to a set of impersonal principles . Studied german bcy- theorized that modern bcy consisted of a number of characteristics- when characteristics were combined in the same organization, it resulted in the pure or ideal type bcy-
