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Public Administration
Question: According to max Weber, legal rational authority is the most rational type of authority. Do you agree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer.
The aim of essay is to discuss legal rational authority commonly known as bureacracy. It high lights why legal rational authority is the best way of authority for any professional run organization. The essay also highlights some of the problems of legal rational authority and the solutions that can make it more flexible in communication and decision making
Legal rational authority according to Webber was the most rational and most stable of authority.
Formal rules and regulations legitimize this authority. People obey orders
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This means an official in a bureaucratic organization should be compensated by being paid a salary. The salary paid to the worker should be according to the work he does. Weber argues that a good pay enhances official loyalty Some writers such as Herbert Simon and Chester Barnard have argued to say that bureaucracy is not the ideal way running an organization, stating that it is inefficient and promotes red tape, and that administrative efficiency would be reduced by using Weber’s structural approach and that efficiency in an organization can be increased by informal organization and better human relations. (Rumki basu)
As much as the structural approach to running the organization may seem to have too much routine because of the rules and regulations, and possibly slow when urgent decisions are need to be made, it is still the best way, because humans on their own without rules to follow cannot be trusted to be 100% rational when making decisions,
the decisions without any consultation to the employees. This is useful in situations where you know
The (Plaintiff) Johnny Singstealer is seeking the sum of $1 million from the (Defendant) Bobby Bandleader, for alleged copyright abuse of the song “Happy Birthday to You”. The (Plaintiff) Johnny Singstealer is the copyright holder to the said song. The (Defendant) Bobby Bandleader is a Bistro owner who performs the song in an altered version (his own words are used) to his customers on their birthdays and have been doing so for the past twenty years without obtaining any licensing or permission from the copyright holder (Plaintiff) Johnny Singstealer.
1.Adams orders one thousand widgets at $5 per widget from International Widget to be delivered within sixty days. After the contract is consummated and signed, Adams requests that International deliver the widgets within thirty days rather than sixty days. International agrees. Is the contractual modification binding?
The last quarter of the nineteenth century brought a slow but perceptible change in American foreign policy. Discuss how that change developed down through the end of the Spanish-American War. Then trace the development of American foreign policy though the administrations of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson (to 1917). What assumptions and objectives lay behind their decisions? How did their foreign policies differ in focus?
1) Since the injured plaintiff was not wearing a seatbelt, why is Ford being sued for failing to test the seatbelt sleeve?
There were times where, you would sit and pounder whether the United States is truly called the home of the free and the land of brave along with being known as the motherland of great opportunities and equality. With Great Civil Right Movements and Great Activist such as, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Ella Baker, and many more. You would think and assume that the nation would be at peace. Yet there are wreathing of broken hearts, shedding of blood of bloodless crimes, and unfair laws. Like, the stand your ground laws, whereas the civilian that possesses the firearm can choose the option to retreat or using that weapon he/she is registered to, as self-defense. Recently, cause of that law an unarmed black teen was killed by an officer in training
A positive organizational approach is really a matter of being able to integrate the competing demands that make up an organization” (Pace, 2010).
Weber states that organizations regulations are formed by few people and this people are the boss, administration employee who tends to have representation powers (Roth and Wittich, 1968). Weber states that the state tends to use bureaucracy on its people in order to establish authority. Bureaucracy is present in various areas in the environment and once bureaucracy is produced then it becomes difficult to
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the public interest and the administrative responsibility. Discuss some of the recent ethical obligations confronting public administrators in their day to day decision making. Also we will examine the recent trend in privatizing government functions. Finally, we will discuss if privatizing posses any type of dilemma’s for the attainment of public interest.
The core constraint of virtually every organization The Goldratt Institute has worked with over the past 16+ years is that organizations are structured, measured and managed in parts, rather than as a whole. The results of this are lower than expected overall performance results, difficulties securing or maintaining a strategic advantage in the marketplace, financial hardships, seemingly constant fire-fighting, customer service expectations being rarely met, the constraint constantly shifting from one place to another and chronic conflicts between people representing different parts of the organization, to name a
Traditionally, the positive image of a company or a brand is very important in the contemporary world. As a result, the question of morality of each individual working within an organization is of a paramount importance. In such a situation there should be no exceptions from the rule and executives could not be in a privileged position. This is the desirable ideal many companies strive to achieve at least in a public eye. However, the reality turns to be quite different from what is expected and the analyzed case of an executive’s double standard is just another evidence of the fact that the real life is so complicated that the common rules, including moral
Bureaucrat is a dirty word to some people in modern society, so how can a bureaucracy be a good thing? Many Public Administration theorist, argue that bureaucracy is essential to the growth and expansion of the United States. Most of the criticism of the bureaucracy within the government is based on myth versus reality. Federal agencies play a critical and a valuable role within society and are indispensable to the operations of the federal government. Bureaucracy can be simply defined as the system in which decision are made by Public Administrators rather than elected officials (legislator) within the government. However, when the average citizen of just says the single word bureaucracy thoughts and images of evoked over how negative
Weber’s bureaucratic approach focuses on the importance of hierarchy by putting great emphasis on the use of rules, procedures and making impartial personnel decisions when managing. He put great emphasis on the jurisdiction, explaining that work should be “divided according to type and purpose” staying within the correct working unit just as the organization’s rules and laws would state (Milakovich, et. al., 2013, p. 146). A hierarchy would be established with a chain of command clearly identifying a system of super- and
The rule of law is a difficult concept to grasp and proves elusive to substantive definition. However, the following work considers the attempts of various social and legal theorists to define the concept and pertinent authorities are considered. Attitudes and emphasis as to the exact shape, form and content of the rule of law differ quite widely depending on the socio-political perspective and views of respective commentators (Slapper and Kelly, 2009, p16), although there are common themes that are almost universally adopted. The conclusions to this work endeavour to consolidate thinking on the rule of law in order to address the question posed in the title, which is at first sight a deceptively simple one.
In the articles “Just Do What the Pilot Tells You” by Theodore Dalrymple and “Genocidal Killer in the Mirror” by Crispin Sartwell, the authors both support the claim that people appeal to authority through bureaucracy and hierarchy. A bureaucracy is a system of government where nearly most of the important decisions are made by state officials, rather than by an elected representative. Sartwell concludes that people included in the bureaucracy fixed the society to do what they wanted him to do and to react to things a certain kind of way, and Dalrymple understands that everyone has to answer to someone. For example, a teacher has to answer to the principle and the principal has to answer to the superintendent. So, like a hierarchy, everyone has to answer to someone. A hierarchy is a system or organization where people or groups are ranked one above the other according to their status or authority. While both provide some clarification of the same process, Sartwell believes that bureaucracies are the greatest evils of society. And while Dalrymple agrees on the topic, he asserts that nearly most of the time we should follow authority in a technologically advanced society. Dalrymple asserts that the interests of patients come from the hierarchy among doctors and that it’s their job to take full responsibility for the care of their patients, Sartwell believes that those included in the bureaucracy mobilized a society to do what they wanted and react to things in a certain kind