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This 12 page paper examines the theories of Max Weber and looks more specifically at charisma. How charisma can be utilized to change a bureaucracy is discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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recordings and get transferred from department to department. They may go down to the physical Motor Vehicle location only to find out that they left an important piece of information
behind. There are no rules that can be bent at Motor Vehicle. The workers are usually taught to repeat certain phraseology. They seem to barely think. That is bureaucracy in
action. No exceptions can be made. If something is required of a citizen, the citizen must fulfill the request to the letter. Of course, bureaucracy as a system is not
all that bad. It is a model that does get things done. At the same time, Max Weber--who some call the father of bureaucracy--claims that it represents "the tragic theme
of modernity" (Borchard, 1999, p.38). Indeed, Weber saw the flaw in the system. Weber contends that the rationalization in terms of work is tragic as the benefits of bureaucracy
like an increase in efficiency comes with the cost of stifling creativity and aligns such organizations with the inability to address exceptional or individual case (Borchard, 1999). Indeed, the reason
why people are frustrated with bureaucracy, and why private dynamic firms will have no part of it, is its inflexibility. A patron with a problem will often not get satisfactory
results. Instead, they end up in a seemingly endless cycle where resolution seems impossible. They are told to send a document to one place, but then told it is the
wrong place by another worker. Mistakes are inevitable because quality is not valued. Each worker who is involved in a bureaucracy is clearly in an individual niche and knows little
about the holistic quality of an organization. The government embraces bureaucracies and so the running of the government to an extent is problematic. Bureaucracy may account at least in
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