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Assess the view that bureaucracy is the most efficient form of organization.
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Assess the view that bureaucracy is the most efficient form of organization. Bureaucracy corresponds to the legal-rational type of authority, whose idea was presented by the German sociologist and philosopher Max Weber. It is a form of organizational structure that is characterized by specialization of labour, a specific authority hierarchy, a formal set of rules, and rigid promotion and selection criteria (Buchanan et al,2001). According to Max Weber characteristics of an ideal bureaucracy are Job specialization, Rules and Regulations, Authority hierarchy, Employment and career, Recording, and impersonality. Specialisation enables each employee to learn more about his or her specialised trade, and therefore enables them to produce more, better and cheaper. The way to increase productivity is to specialise functions into determined roles, and within those roles to specialise tasks. Obviously, in a workshop with about 20 employees, that should not be too hard. But the moment the size of the production...
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