3 Goals Today

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3 Goals Today

• 1. Colleague Editing Overview and Preparation.
• 2. Bureaucracy Overview and Practice identifying
  aspects.
• 3. Return Exams and Mid-semester forms.

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Week 8 Groups and Organizations

• Chapter 6

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Max Webers 3 Sources of Authority

• Traditional
• Charismatic
• Rational-Legal/Bureaucratic Authority

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• Weber believed bureaucracy was so powerful that
• he predicted BKCYs would eventually come to
  dominate social life.
• Why so great?
• Efficient (unlike traditional)
• Stable and accountable (unlike charisma)

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Bureaucracy

• Bureaucracy
• --A bureaucracy is a component of formal
  organization in which rules and hierarchical
  ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
• Religious inst, government, schools, business,
  military
• Ideal Type Bureaucracy
• --This term indicates a construct or model
  serving as a measuring rod against which specific
  cases can be evaluated.

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Today Benefits, Next Class Problems

• Military
• 7 min

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Work at a specific task, more likely to become
highly skilled and carry it out with max
efficiency
Source Kendall
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Pyramid, Clear organization and chain of command,
set uniformed focus
Source Kendall
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• Rationality, predictability, logical, deliberate
  path to efficiently reach goals,
• Workers know what is expected of them.

Source Kendall
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Hire for talent not favoritism, performance
focused
Source Kendall
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Rules over personal preferences, treat uniformly
Source Kendall