Name the five characteristics comprising Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy as well as their effects

What will be an ideal response?


Weber described five ideal-type characteristics of bureaucratic organization. However,

he acknowledged that not all organizations would fit his ideal type. The characteristics

are: division of labor, hierarchy of authority, impersonality, rules and regulations, and

qualification-based employment.Their effects include inefficiency and rigidity,

resistance to change, and perpetuation of race, class, and gender inequalities.

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