PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF MANAGEMENT SEMINAR- 1

MAX WEBER

1864-1920

INTRODUCTION TO WEBER

• Max Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany on April 21, 1864

• Max Weber was one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century, a founding "father" of modern sociology; he was also a historian and a philosopher

• Max Weber was the first to observe and write on bureaucracies which developed in Germany during the 19th century

CONTRIBUTIONS OF WEBER

• Power and authority 1. Charismatic authority 2. Traditional authority 3. Rational-legal authority

WELL DEFINED HIERARCHY

DIVISION OF LABOR AND SPECIALIZATION

RULES AND REGULATIONS

IMPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

CAREER ORIENTATION

RECORDS

IMPLEMENTING THE MAX WEBER THEORY IN MODERN MANAGEMENT

• Assess your company's existing management A style

• Learn to assess a job candidate's skills--a key part of the Max Weber business management style

• Hire a consultant to help you implement Weber's management theory

CONCLUSION

• His basic idea is that bureaucracy as a unique ideal-type has remarkably good qualities.

• Weber's ideas have much in common with scientific management, what makes bureaucracies unique.

• The Western state is the only political institution with a rational, written constitution, rationally ordered law, and a government bound by rational laws and administered by rationally trained officials.