Weber is well known for his studies of bureaucracy, which epitomizes formal rationality in its goal-oriented conduct guided by calculation and abstract rules.
bureaucracy, the most technically efficient form of organization, demands
hierarchy; authority is based upon written rules and management requires expert
It favors_ "precision, speed, ambiguity, knowledge of the files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of
material and personal costs." Bureaucracy is most developed in the modern-state
and in capitalism. Capitalist organizations favor bureaucracy, for business
management must, through rational, calculable planning, increase precision,
steadiness, and speed of operation. Weber states. "The objective discharge of
business primarily means a discharge of business according to the calculable rules
and 'without regard for persons. "' Bureaucracy levels status-honor and minimizes
personal desires that cannot be calculated (such as love, hatred, etc.). Such qualities
are bad for business,