POLS 2250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Heredity, Mechanical Engineering, Lyndall Urwick

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2250
• Professor: Tim Mau

Document Summary

Chapter 2: public admin and organization theory: the structural foundation. We investigate the basic structures that constitute the bureaucratic organizations in government and their interactions with other bodies in the political process. It also means taking a close look at some of the essential duties of public bureaucracies. Theories grapple with the challenge of offering clear and accurate descriptions of organizational forms. They also put forward suggestions for enhancing the performance of organizations and ensuring that services are provided more fairly and efficiently. Theories of organization offer us the framework for better explaining the behaviour or operation of various structures that may arise in public admin. The first person who systematically studied the emerging phenomenon of bureaucracy was a. German scholar named max weber, who was born in 1864. The modern bureaucratic form consisted of a number of related characteristics. When combined in the same organization, the result was what he called the pure or ideal-type bureaucracy.