The Bureaucracy: The Real Government. Max Weber's Bureaucracy

The Bureaucracy: The Real Government.

Max Weber's Bureaucracy



Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The building in the picture in Washington, D.C., houses the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a bureaucratic agency. These are the images that come to mind when many Americans think of government bureaucracy. A bureaucrat is someone who works in administrative capacity for the government. How important are bureaucrats and their government agencies in actually running the United States government? According to some, they are the real government - the ones behind the scenes who go to work when the politicians are enjoying the spotlight.
Max Weber's Bureaucracy. Max Weber is known as the founder of modern sociology.
Max Weber, a German sociologist was one of the first people in modern times to think seriously about the importance of bureaucracy. The term actually comes from the French word "bureau," a reference to the small desks that the king's representatives set up in towns as they traveled across the country on king's business. So bureaucracy literally means "government with a small desk".
Weber wrote about Germany during the early 20th century, when developing capitalism was spawning more and more large businesses. The changing economic scene had important implications for government. Weber saw bureaucracy as a rational way for complex businesses and governments to organize. He did not see them as necessary evils, but as the best organizational response to a changing society.
According to Weber, model bureaucracies have the following characteristics:
∙ A chain of command that is hierarchical; the top bureaucrat has ultimate control, and authority flows from the top down
∙ A clear division of labor in which every individual has a specialized job
∙ Clearly written, well-established formal rules that all people in the organization follow
∙ A clearly defined set of goals that all people in the organization strive toward
∙ Merit-based hiring and promotion; no granting of jobs to friends or family unless they are the best qualified
∙ Job performance that is judged by productivity, or how much work an individual gets done
Weber emphasized the importance of the bureaucracy in getting things done and believed that a well-organized, rational bureaucracy is the secret behind the successful operation of modern societies.
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