Bureaucracy Quote by Max Weber on Organizational Forms

„A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.“

Max WeberMax Weber's quote describes bureaucracy as a precise, fast, and structured organizational form with unique features.
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Maximilian "Max" Carl Emil Weber was a German sociologist and economist.

Quote by Max Weber describing bureaucracy as an efficient, structured organizational form.


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Max Weber quote about bureaucracy, precision, speed, clarity, and organizational efficiency

Max Weber (1864–1920) was a prominent German sociologist, economist, and political economist, considered one of the founding figures of modern sociology. He is known for his work on bureaucracy, capitalism, and political sociology.

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"The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable." Max Weber
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Quote on bureaucracy and despotic power by Walter LippmannCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government." Walter Lippmann
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Walter Lippmann quote about bureaucracy, routine, and government administrationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof." Walter Lippmann
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