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    program to steal from the company in small decimal amounts, but at the end, they accidentally end up stealing a large amount of money from the company. Office space demonstrates many concepts introduced by Max Weber such as Rationalisation, and Bureaucracy. Office Space provides many examples of the rationalization of the workforce. According to Weber, Rationalization is the process of replacing the traditional and emotional thought with reason and practicality.Weber believed that most societies

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    entitled Reinventing Government from David Osborne and Ted Gaebler begins with the story of bureaucratic change in America. Osborne and Gaebler took the success story of Visalia, East Harlem, and the Defence Department in rebuilding government bureaucracy to entrepreneurial government. Osborne and Gaebler argue that the American bureaucratic model was created and developed during the economic depression and two World Wars, which was appropriate and worked superbly. At that time, people wanted security

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    Machine bureaucracy type structures are "performance organizations" not "problem solving" ones. Professional Bureaucracy The professional bureaucracy relies for coordination on: * the standardization of skills and its associated parameters such as design, training and indoctrination. * In professional bureaucracy type structures duly trained and indoctrinated specialists -professionals- are hired for the

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    people are trusted to do the right things rather than being forced by a set of written and unwritten rules that regulate social behavior. There are three significant differences between American culture and German culture: rules and regulations, the bureaucracy, and categorization. These differences help explain why German and American culture are so different. The first and most important cultural difference between Americans and Germans is the issue of self-control and regulations. Many Americans are

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    essay on Bureaucracy and demonstrates a spot-on representation of his ideals in Charismatic Authority. In Bureaucracy, Weber describes the bureaucratic structure as a nearly unbreakable and regenerative entity. He argues that, “Once fully established, bureaucracy is among those social structures which are hardest to destroy. Bureaucracy is the means of transforming social action into rationally organized action. Therefore, as an instrument of rationally organizing authority relations, bureaucracy was

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    While Webster believed bureaucracies were well organized machines that could accomplish any goal, he also noted disadvantages, one being that power shifted to only those individuals at the top, and could result in monocracy. Weber also discussed authority and sought to learn what gave power to an individual to be able to claim authority over another, such as man over woman. The success that bureaucracy produced during the industrial revolution and up to the late

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    be able to whatever they chose without any consequence. This would result in a huge increase in crime and destruction throughout the world. Family is also an important institution for society, because without humans would eventually no longer exist and die out. Family’s regulate reproduction, and protect children. While reproduction still occurs outside family’s, children who grow up with family’s instead of in orphanages are often much better off in life. All of the institutions contribute basic

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