Excerpts from Max Weber: Bureaucracy (1922)

Weber’s bureaucracy “is rational in that it involves control based on knowledge, it has clearly defined spheres of competence, it operates according to intellectually analyzable rules, and it has calculability in its operations” (Fry, 1998, 32). In the same vein, Weber’s “[b]ureaucracy is efficient because of its precision, speed, consistency, availability of records, continuity ... ................
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