![]() ![]() ![]() This is what Max Weber (1864-1920) predicted almost 100 years ago that the process of rationalization will be lead to a bureaucratic way to handle and manage things. 2 These are consequences of rationalization and that´s why bureaucracy is an omnipresent part of our all modern life. 1 Wherever it is called, how relevant the subject of bureaucracy is in our present service economy, shows Ritzer´s (1993) thesis from the ‘McDonaldization of Society’ and his findings, that calculability, predictability, control and efficiency are the basis of our acting. ![]() That’s why bureaucratic structures in public and private administrations are likely described as management. In public opinion bureaucracy has in general a negative connotation which could be expressed with Goethe’s citation above, because bureaucracy is in Germany seen as a typical German phenomenon for inflexibility and unprofitability. The negative consequences he identifies are the displacement of goals, the trained incapacity, over-conformity and esprit de corps of the officials and the depersonalization of relationships. Merton analysis outlines the dysfunctions resulting from bureaucratic structures. Weber´s position concerning bureaucratization is ambivalent, because he also sees the negative consequences in dehumanization and excessive control, which ends in an ‘iron cage’. The purest and most rational type of legal domination is in Weber´s eyes bureaucracy with its benefits of precision, calculability, controllability and efficiency - in short, with its technical superiority. The starting point is the description of what Weber understands as rationalization and his conceptualization of the three types of legitimate domination. The text at hand deals with Max Weber´s theory of bureaucracy and its negative consequences in Robert K. 2 Max Weber´s Theory of Bureaucracy and its Negative ConsequencesĢ.1.1 Rationalization as Weber´s Image of ModernityĢ.1.2 Three Types of Legitimate DominationĢ.1.3 Characteristics of Weber´s Bureaucracy and its BenefitsĢ.2 Negative Consequences of Weber´s Bureaucracy ![]()
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