POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Jacques Claude Marie Vincent De Gournay, Lyndall Urwick
2 Mar 2013
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Term coined in 1745 by vincent de gournay. 7 different modern concepts of bureaucracy (martin albrow: as rational organization, as organizational inefficiency, as rule by officials, as pubic administration, as administration by officials, as the organization, as modern society. Negative connotations, but rational and efficient way of. Rests on 4 major tenets: organisations exist to achieve production/economic. Goals: one best way to organise, specialization and division of labour, people and organisations act rationally. Frederick taylor, max weber, luther gulick and lyndall urwick. German sociologist who was the first to systematically study. Bureaucracy that form of administrative organization which. Was capable of attaining the highest level of efficiency . Needs of mass administration and modern, complex society made. Bureaucracy related to 3 types of authority: traditional, charismatic, rational-legal basis for bureaucracy. Specialization of labour / sphere of competence. Bureaucratic employment is separate from private life.
