مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - THE FOUNDATIONS AND EFFICACIES OF THE RATIONAL BUREAUCRACY IN THE WEST

Abstract :

The typical administrative apparatus corresponding to the legal type of domination is called bureaucracy. It is also characterised by this belief in the rules and the legal order. The position of the bureaucrat is very clearly. His relations regulated appropriate for his official status. His authorities and responsibilities are strictly defined by impersonal rules. These rules delineate in a rational way the hierarchy of the apparatus, the rights and duties of every position, the case of recruitment and promotion and so on. For this reason the modern organizations are increasingly administered by impersonal and rational rules aiming at maximum efficiency. Max Weber uses the term bureaucratisation in a still wider sense when he refers to ways of acting and thinking which are not only to be found in organisational contexts but which permeate all aspects of social life.