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    Organization Theories of Max Weber

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    In five pages this paper discusses the organizational theories developed by sociologist Max Weber. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    truth behind bureaucracy could not have been any more efficient, if carried through in the right way. Throughout his life, Weber supported solid, efficient organizations that were made so through  solid, efficient bureaucracies. Born in Germany, Weber was considered one of the founding fathers of sociology, yet he managed to combine  the philosophies of the socialist into the practical rationality of the economist (Max Weber; see also Kilcullen (b)). He was an anti-socialist, an anti-Marxist and a nationalist who greatly admired  and respected the land in which he was born (Kilcullen (b)). According to Weber, there were two basic features of advanced capitalism;  division of labor and a hierarchical administration (Max Weber). It is this latter that separated Weber from other sociologists of his day. Throughout much of his career, Weber focused on  the rationalization of western culture, establishing works including The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and An Essay on Bureaucracy (Max Weber). He was the first to observe and  write about bureaucracies that developed in Germany during the 19th century, and considered them to be "efficient, rational and honest, a big improvement over the haphazard administration that they replaced"  (Max Weber, German Sociologist and First Analyst of Bureaucracy). For many years, he did suffer from mental illness, but ended up with a full recovery (Max Weber, German Sociologist  and First Analyst of Bureaucracy). He died in 1920 (Max Weber, German Sociologist and First Analyst of Bureaucracy). In R.J. Kilcullens essay  on Weber, he explains the origins of bureaucracy, noting that it comes from the French for desk, or by extension, an office (Kilcullen). Bureaucracy, in a sense, is a rule 

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