21718: Organizational Analysis and Design Assignment 1 Assignment One – Cover Sheet Student Name and ID: Chetan S Chakravarthy (10911598) Class - Day-Time‚ or Intensive: Thursday‚ 18:00 – 21:00 Lecturer: Geoff Breach DECLARATION OF ORIGINAL WORK: I declare that this assignment is my own work. I have referenced all sources of information and ideas and have put all material taken word-for-word from my sources within quotation marks and where available have included a page number as part of my
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LEGITIMACY Legitimacy the degree of acceptance which the political regime enjoys over its community. Thus according to Max Weber a political regime is legitimate when it influences it’s participants to have the willingness to obey its commands (Weber‚ 1964: 382). Thus Weber illustrated these using ideal concepts‚ namely traditional‚ charismatic and legal-rational authority. Traditional authority‚ when a regime basis its legitimacy on tradition
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administration‚ Weberian model of bureaucracy finds a central place. Max Weber is the first thinker who has systematically studied the bureaucracy. He has provided a theoretical framework and basis for understanding bureaucracy. Max Weber’s analysis influenced many modern writers on bureaucracy. Weber‚ apart from bureaucracy‚ wrote on various aspects of the society ranging from history‚ religion to legitimacy and domination. Weber was founder of modern sociology and a greatest scholar among the pioneers
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A STUDY ON WEBER’S THEORY OF ORGANIZATION AND BUREAUCRACY A Research Project Submitted to Institute of Law Nirma University For continuous evaluation in the subject of SOCIOLOGY [2BAL 305] Semester III [Academic Year 2012- 2013] UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF Prof. (Dr.) Bankim Nongthombam Singh Institute of Law Nirma University RESEARCHER KRATI JOSHI
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Action Max Weber According to Max Weber‚ individuals and cultures arbitrarily create their own values. There is a close connection between religion ‚ the rise of economic capitalism and birth of modern civilization in western Europe. Weber emphasized the role of religious values‚ ideologies‚ and charismatic leaders in shaping societies. Weber’s most famous work‚ The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-1905)‚ introduced the concept of the “Protestant Ethic”. Weber theorized
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Max Weber was strongly influenced by Marx’s ideas‚ but rejected the possibility of effective communism‚ arguing that it would require an even greater level of detrimental social control and bureaucratization than capitalist society. Weber developed the three-component theory of stratification and the concept of life chances. Weber supposed there were more class divisions than Marx suggested‚ taking different concepts from both functionalist and Marxist theories to create his own system. Weber claimed
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one has to first understand Max Weber’s description of this term‚ as most academics relate their own view on authority back to his. Weber was a sociologist‚ political economist and philosopher and he classified authority into three different categories; the first is Traditional authority‚ the second Rational-Legal authority and the third Charismatic authority. Weber distinguished these three forms of authority in order to answer his question; why do people do what they are told. For‚ with the exception
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Historical Perspective of Management Max Weber Sally Rogers March 29‚ 2012 Historical Perspective of Management Max Weber was a German sociologist that pioneered the term bureaucracy. Weber founded six major principles of bureaucracy Formal hierarchical structure‚ Management by rules‚ Organization by functional specialty‚ An "up-focused" or "in-focused" mission‚ Purposely impersonal
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The three-component theory of stratification‚ more widely known as Weberian Stratification or Three Class System‚ was developed by German sociologist Max Weber with class‚ status and party as distinct ideal types. Weber developed a multidimensional approach to Social stratification that reflects the interplay among wealth‚ prestige and power. “Weber argued that power can take a variety of forms. A person’s power can be shown in the social order through their status‚ in the economic order
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The Types of Legitimate Domination By Max Weber In The Types of Legitimate Domination‚ Weber claims there are three ideal-types of basis for legitimate authority: rational/legal‚ traditional‚ and charismatic. Rational/legal is legal authority that comes from rules such as police officers‚ senators‚ etc. Traditional is authority that comes from traditions and the belief in the sanctity of “the way it has been done before” such as priests‚ queens‚ etc. The final type of power is charismatic which
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