Classics

Bureaucratic administration means fundamentally domination through knowledge

- Max Weber.

Max Weber about bureaucracy:

At the beginning of 20th century, against the diversity ofkinds of organizations, Max Weber looked for the common in all of them and he called to the common characteristics: bureaucracy.
In addiction, it was necessary for him to the complex organization ofthe activities in modern society, because in the traditional societies it was too limited, it is used only in some aspects of the organization, such as tax collection, army's organization, etc.Weber recognized that bureaucracy creates jamming and disadvantages such a slow, boring..., but he thought this was the price for a rational and effective, which has the advantages of maximizing theeffectiveness with which goals are achieved , maximize of efficiency to achieve the best result at the lowest cost and can control the uncertainty to the workers, suppliers and markets.

Then, the“ideal-type” bureaucracy characteristics are:

a) Hierarchy of offices, is a pyramid with a chain of command, in which each instance monitors and controls the lower. Consist of positions that involvea number of duties and privileges, in the highest positions, not people, is the authority, which is always clearly defined and limited.

b) There are written rules that regulate and specify thetasks of each, allowing the functioning of the bureaucracy is orderly and predictable, although there is turnover.
c) Impersonal before making decisions, so that the interests and feelings arerelegated to private life outside the organization.

d) Specialization for different tasks. The work to be executed is divided into a well-established division of labour and people are trained tospecialize in executing this task, is the most efficient way to do a job.
e) Separation of the workers owned the means of production and material resources they manage.
f) Rewards and promotion based...