POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fax, Heredity, Henri Fayol

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2250
• Professor: Tim Mau

Document Summary

Bureaucracy" & public bureaucracy" used interchangeably: term coined by vincent de gournay (1745, used pejoratively. 7 different modern conceptions of bureaucracy (martin albrow: as rational organization, as organizational inefficiency, as rule by officials, as public administration, as administration by officials, as the organization, as modern society. Red tape": hierarchy, waste, slow, lack of accountability, rules & procedures, standardization, paperwork, organization, rule by officials, arbitrary. Inflexible/resistant to change: largely negative, but a rational & efficient way to organize. Identifies the characteristics of a phenomenon in its most extreme characteristics and form: they do not exist in reality, never claimed that all organizations displayed all factors of bureaucracy, there was a general tendency in this direction. Frederick taylor (1856-1915: scientific management or taylorism", his work is part of structuralists theories. Best management is a true science : resting on clearly defined rules/principles in order to study/investigate, unit of analysis was not society as a whole but the individual in the workplace.