Essay About Interests Of Leaders And Social Structures

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Max Weber: Bureaucracy is an “Iron Cage” capable of crushing human freedom and creativity
Robert Michels’ Iron Law of Oligarchy: Initially democratic organizations demonstrate increasing inequality as they become more complex
Oligarchy: The rule of the many by the few
*interests of leaders take over the interests of the members: politics
W. Richard Scott: Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems
Organizations: social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specified goals
?Functional definition
?Bureaucracies are you efficient
Common Problems faced by organizations:
Define (and redefine) objectives
Induce participants to contribute
Control and coordinate contributions: focused on producing products or outcomes
Resources must be exchanged with environments: what is resource for one may actually be the product for another
Participants must be selected, trained and replaced
Relations with neighbors must be maintained
Corporate Person: Idea that organizations act like and in some cases have the same rights as individual citizens
? Employment is dominated by relatively few large organizations, while most employers are small
? The largest 3% of employing organizations employ over 50% of US workers
? Yet over 50% of organizations have fewer than 4 employees
Organizational Structure Pyramid analogy
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Steep: Hierarchical
Normative Structure: Values, norms. Role expectations of organizations for its members
Behavioral Structure: Actual behavior of organization and its members
? Interrelation between normative and behavioral structure constitutes the social structure of the organization
Formal Social Structure: Social positions and relationships between them have been explicitly defined.
Members or participants: Individuals who in return for some inducement make contributions to the organization
?All organizations possess technology that allows them to perform work
Organizational Environment: Everything not within organizational