Discuss three components of a bureaucracy according to Max Weber. What did Weber mean by the term ideal type?

What will be an ideal response?


but should include three of the following components: Positions within
the organization have official functions and are bound by a set of rules; each office has a sphere of competence and the authority to handle specific tasks in that sphere; positions exist in a vertical hierarchy; positions have technical requirements, and
those who hold those offices must undergo the needed training; those who occupy positions do not own the equipment needed for the job, it is provided by the company; those who occupy particular offices—CEOs, for example—do not get to keep them when they leave, they remain part of the organization; everything with any formal importance is documented in writing. An ideal type is a pure type of a category within a conceptual system. A pure example of an ideal type is not expected to be found in the real world, but typologies with such clearly defined categories help to simplify understanding of the real world.

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