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Auteur(s) : Cochrane, Glynn
Titre(s) : Max Weber's vision for bureaucracy [Texte imprimé] : a casualty of World War I / Glynn Cochrane
Publication : Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-197 p.) ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 165-186. Index
Sujet(s) : Weber, Max (1864-1920) -- Pensée politique et sociale
Bureaucratie -- Philosophie
Histoire militaire -- Europe -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
302.35 (23e éd.) = Interaction sociale au sein des groupes complexes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783319622897. - ISBN 3319622897. - ISBN 9783319622880 (erroné). - ISBN 3319622889
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45577098q
Notice n° :
FRBNF45577098
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Table des matières : 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.
