Presentation1 contribution of max webber

1. PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF MANAGEMENT
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2. MAX WEBER
1864-1920

3. INTRODUCTION TO WEBER
• MaxWeber was born in Erfurt, Germany on
April 21, 1864
• MaxWeber 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

4. CONTRIBUTIONS OF WEBER
• Power and authority
1. Charismatic authority
2. Traditional authority
3. Rational-legal authority

6. WELL DEFINED HIERARCHY

7. DIVISION OF LABOR AND
SPECIALIZATION

8. RULES AND REGULATIONS

9. IMPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

10. CAREER ORIENTATION

11. RECORDS

13. 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

14. 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.