Max Weber's vision for bureaucracy : a casualty of World War I /: a casualty of World War I. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Glynn Cochrane.
• Authors: Cochrane, Glynn
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Prussian Antecedents to Weber's Vision; Weber's Military Experience Has Not Been Studied; And Cultural Factors Have Been Neglected; Ancient and Modern Lessons from Bureaucracy; Size, Expertise, and Merit; Arrangement of the Material That Follows; Chapter 2. Von Moltke's Staff Bureaucracy; Chapter 3. Risk and Scientific Expertise; Chapter 4. Weber's Post-Versailles Bureaucracy; Chapter 5. German Attitudes Toward Public Service; Chapter 6. Prussian Lessons in Public Health; Chapter 7. Bureaucracy and Society. Chapter 2: Von Moltke's Staff BureaucracyVon Moltke's Brain; The New Warfare; Merit-Based Selection; Hierarchy and Plasticity ; Relying on Flexible Doctrine, Not Rigid Rules; Political and Military Decision-Making; The Industrial Revolution's Command Challenge; The Failure of Harsh Discipline; Campaigning; Files and Paperwork; Business Staff; Calling and Culture as Performance Drivers; Chapter 3: Risk and Scientific Expertise; Fit-for-Purpose Expertise; Prussia's Analytical Tools; Prussia's Historical Method; Use of the Dialectic; Decline; Chapter 4: Weber's Post-Versailles Bureaucracy. Was this Bureaucracy Really Produced by Weber?A Very Average Bureaucracy; No Engine; No Inspirational Goals; No Calling or Sense of Service; No 'Informal Organization'; No Scientific Expertise; No Means of Compulsion; Doubts About the Human Cost of Bureaucracy ; Accounting for Bureaucracy's Failure; Chapter 5: German Attitudes Toward Public Service; Civil Service; Civil Service Reform, 1870-1900; Classical Bildung Expertise; Parliament and Civil Service; German Industry; The Army; Chapter 6: Prussian Lessons in Public Health; Goals; Fit-for-Purpose Expertise; Flexible Hierarchy; Calling. Strong DisciplineAmazing Logistics; Campaigning and Public Participation; Volunteers; Communicating with the Public; Chapter 7: Bureaucracy and Society; The Treaty of Versailles had a Decisive Difference; Why Was Prussia's Bureaucracy Different?; The Importance of Goals; The Role of Calling and Culture; The Ability to Campaign; Weaknesses in Weber's Model; Weber's Bureaucratic Legacy; De-militarized Bureaucracy; Moving On; Appendix A; Max Weber: Life and Bureaucracy; Appendix B; Early Staff Role and Forms of Domination; Legitimate Domination; Traditional Domination; Charismatic Domination. Appendix COrganization Theory; Informal Organization, Ideal-Type, Logic of the Situation, the Dialectic; Informal Organization; Case Method Ideal-Type; The Logic of the Situation; The Dialectic; Appendix D; Culture and Global Bureaucracy ; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.3/5; 300; Bureaucracy; PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology; Bureaucracy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319622897; 3319622897
• Related ISBNs: 9783319622880; 3319622889
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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