• Max Weber: Bureaucracy is an "Iron Cage" capable of crushing human freedom and creativity

• Robert Michels' Iron Law of Oligarchy: Initially democratic organizations demonstrate increasing inequality as they become more complex
o Oligarchy: The rule of the many by the few

*interests of leaders take over the interests of the members: politics

• W. Richard Scott: Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems
o Organizations: social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specified goals
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?Functional definition
?Bureaucracies are you efficient

Common Problems faced by organizations:
a.) Define (and redefine) objectives
b.) Induce participants to contribute
c.) Control and coordinate contributions: focused on producing products or outcomes
d.) Resources must be exchanged with environments: what is resource for one may actually be the product for another
e.) Participants must be selected, trained and replaced
f.)......

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