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- Title
The Greatly Exaggerated Death of Bureaucracy.
- Authors
MIEWALD, ROBERT D.
- Abstract
The article refers to the views of Warren Bennis and Max Weber concerning bureaucracy and social implications of industrialization and argues that bureaucracy is not dead. From a scientific management perspective, bureaucracy--resulting from social or rational discipline--allows worker behavior to be a factor in calculating optimum productivity. The power of knowledge and bounded rationality, effect of knowledge and authority in organizations that have a unilinear definition of rationality, depersonalization in management theory, "the law of the situation" proposed by Mary Parker Folllett, outlook for dehumanization in a technological society with bureaucracy resulting from self-discipline, and a social problem of "dropping out" are mentioned.
- Subjects
BUREAUCRACY; POST-industrial society theory; WEBER, Max, 1864-1920; BENNIS, Warren, 1925-2014; FOLLETT, Mary Parker, 1868-1933; MANAGEMENT science; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology research; RATIONALIZATION (Psychology); KNOWLEDGE-based theory of the firm; INDIVIDUALISM
- Publication
California Management Review, 1970, Vol 13, Issue 2, p65
- ISSN
0008-1256
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/41164280