TRN303H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Weber readings: Depersonalization, Universal Design, Office Management
9 Dec 2017
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The bureaucracy i: external form, technical superiority, ethos, and inequality. These three elements constitute a bureaucratic agency (in sphere of the state) or a bureaucratic enterprise (in sphere of private economy) Official receives monetary compensation in form of salary (fixed) and pension: salary measured according to status (rank, length of service) not worked done. Official is set for career within hierarchical order of public service = seniority : increase of status and economic security. Bureaucratic rule was not and is not the only variety of legal authority, but it is the purest. (198) The technical superiority of bureaucratic organization over administration by notables. Advance of bureaucratic organization its technical superiority over other form of organization: list of merits on page 199. Honorific arrangements make administrative work a secondary activity: less precise and less unified no one authority, less dependent on superiors, prevents the exploitation of subordinates more expensive.
