Max Weber: Public Administration

Max Weber: Public Administration

Introduction

Max Weber in his writings says: "Experience tends universally to show that the type of administrative organization purely is bureaucratic, i.e. the range of monocratic bureaucracy is, from a viewpoint technically capable of achieving the highest degree of efficiency, and in this sense is the more formal means sound is known to achieve effective control over humans is superior to either other form in precision, stability, discipline and operability. Therefore, makes possible a high degree in the calculation of results for the leaders of the Organization and for those with relationship with it. Finally, it is superior in efficiency and in the scope of its operations, and is formally capable of performing any administrative tasks” (Parkin, 1982).

The Meaning of Bureaucracy

The word (bureaucracy) seems to have always had a pejorative character, is said to derive a somewhat vague combination of Greco-Latin and French roots. Burrus The Latin term, is used to indicate a dark color and sad, has given rise to the word French 'bure' used to describe a type of cloth placed on the tables of certain offices of importance, especially in public. Hence derived the word "bureau", first to define the desks covered with the cloth, and then to designate the entire office. A French government minister of the eighteenth century is credited with coining the word "bureaucratie" to refer, in a rather sarcastic sense, to all public offices. Obviously, the word "bureaucracy", derived from "bureaucratie" language is implicit in two components: 'Bureau' office 'cratos' power. Therefore, the voice of yore appealed to the idea of the exercise of desktop power through government offices. However, the term bureaucracy to some other authors was coined by Weber himself, who derived it from the German word "büro ', which also means "office." In this sense, to Weber, bureaucracy is a great organization that operates on rational functions. The term "bureaucracy" has become part of everyday language. Preferably it is used in the field of public organizations that constitute the state, forgetting that the bureaucracies in any of its senses also operate in the private sector. Weber himself saw the bureaucracy as a type of power and not as a social system which is exercised by the state through its "ruling class". The apparatus organization is the bureaucracy, a legal and rational framework which concentrates formal authority at the top of the system. The means of administration are not owned by the intermediary manager. Their powers are not subject to inheritance or sale. The term bureaucracy has three connotations (Zamor, 2001):

a. Bureaucracy in the sense vulgata: its ordinary meaning is popular and parish.

b. Bureaucracy as the dominant social class is embedded in the state.

c. Bureaucracy as a model of organization in the Weberian sense of the term.

Sense Vulgato

There is probably no more outrageous and insulting nickname for an employee, office or public worker even privately, that the being called Bureaucrat! The tone of voice, inflection and the word itself, lead a dignified little ...