ABSTRACT

The idea that bureaucracy is the most efficient form of administration has best been expressed in Germany. British administrators, on the other hand, have long resisted bureaucracy and all other theories that stress logic to the exclusion of counterbalancing, human factors. Max Weber was thoroughly modem in his assumption that trends in organization and management in the dominant institutions of society affect all other institutions. Thus the progressive bureaucratization of the institutions of business and industry are exerting a marked influence on military organization, church organization, governmental organization, and all other forms of large-scale enterprise. Although Weber believed bureaucracy to be inherent in all formal organization, he also assumed that since Western society lives under a regime of law which applies to all institutions, bureaucracy is a legal as well as an administrative concept, and from this he drew a number of important inferences.