Lecture 05: Designing Organisations (14 Feb) What

Lecture 05: Designing organisations (14 Feb)What was this lecture about?BureaucracyFormal and informal organisationDesigning organisations BureaucracyBureaucracy is an organisational form consisting of a hierarchy of differentiated knowledge and expertise in which rules and disciplines are arranged not only hierarchically in regard to each other but also in parallelMax Weber (21 April 1864 - 14 June 1920) - contemporary of FW Taylor and H Fayol For a biography, see: HYPERLINK "https://discoverlibrary-stir-ac-uk.ezproxy.stir.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1038129" Bendix (1966)Central question: What is characteristic about modernity? - see: Weber's The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Gave serious consideration to the question of how any large organisation might function more systematicallyResponse: management by the office or position, rather than the person, is the “ideal” form of organisationWeber’s conceptualisation of bureaucracy is arguably one of the most important foundations for organisation theoryBureaucracy provided norms that could guide the shift from patrimonial management to large-scale professional managementTo show how this shift is achieved, Weber develops the relationship between authority and activityWeber postulates that there are three "pure" types of socially acceptable (or legitimate) authority:Traditional, charismatic, rational-legal - see Hatch (2018, pp. 28-29)These are the basis of any