MGMT 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Plutocracy
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Overview: control is essential for efficiency in any business. Weber sees bureaucracy as the best-known means of carrying out imperative control of human beings. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Purest type of legal authority bureaucratic administrative staff. Subject to strict and systematic discipline, control in the conduct of the office (cid:1) (cid:1) This type of organization is applicable to a wide variety of different fields: This type of bureaucracy is found in private clinics as well as hospitals maintained by religious orders. Bureaucratic authority is in its purest form when it is dominated by the principal of appointment. Election makes it impossible to attain a stringency of discipline: future growth not dependent on superior"s judgment (cid:1) (cid:1) Appointment by free contract is essential (makes free selection possible) Example of non-free officials: slaves, dependents (patrimonial bureaucracy) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) May not apply to the top of a bureaucratic organization. Sources of income privately appropriated = benefices .
