MAX WEBER AND

HIS
CONTRIBUTION
TO SUPPLY CHAIN

For those who most frequently think of themselves as

leaders often qualify least as leaders

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AGENDA
•  Max Weber's contributions to the social studies
• Max Weber's most known work
• Max Weber's contribution to the supply chain and bureaucracy theory
• Bureaucratic Management Principle
• Advantages vs Disadvantages of the Bureaucracy
• Bibliography
LIFE AND CAREER

• He went to university and became a professor, but suffered a mental breakdown in

1897 that left him unable to work for five years. In 1905 he published his most
famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. He returned to
teaching in 1918 and died in 1920.
• What are the major contribution of Max Weber to sociology?
Get a brief introduction to what are considered some of his most important
theoretical contributions: his formulation of the connection between culture and
economy; conceptualizing how people and institutions come to have authority, and
how they keep it; and, the "iron cage" of bureaucracy and how it shapes our lives.
LIFE AND CAREER

• Max Weber is known as a principal architect of modern social

science along with Karl Marx and Emil Durkheim. 
• Weber’s wide-ranging contributions gave critical impetus to the
birth of new academic disciplines such as sociology as well as to
the significant reorientation in law, economics, political science,
and religious studies
LIFE AND CAREER
• Weber’s two most celebrated contributions were the
“rationalization thesis,” a grand meta-historical analysis of the
dominance of the west in modern times, and the “Protestant Ethic
thesis,” a non-Marxist genealogy of modern capitalism.
• His very first successful work was the East Elbian Report on the
displacement of the German agrarian workers in East Prussia by
Polish migrant labors. This report was receieved him by the leading
social science association under Gustav Schmoller's leadership.
MAX WEBER'S
BUREAUCRACY THEORY
• Bureaucracy definition: “Bureaucracy is an organisational
structure that is characterised by many rules, standardised
processes, procedures and requirements, number of desks,
meticulous division of labour and responsibility, clear hierarchies
and professional, almost impersonal interactions between
employees”.
MAX WEBER'S BUREAUCRACY THEORY

• According to the bureaucratic theory of Max Weber, three types of

power can be found in organizations; traditional power, charismatic
power and legal power. The following three elements support
bureaucratic management:

All regular activities within a bureaucracy can be regarded as official

duties;
Management has the authority to impose rules;
Rules can easily be respected on the basis of established methods.
 According to the bureaucratic theory of Max
Weber, bureaucracy is the basis for the
HOW systematic formation of any organisation and is
designed to ensure efficiency and economic
WEBER'S effectiveness.

BUREAUCRA It is an ideal model for management and its

administration to bring an organisation’s power
CY THEORY structure into focus. With these observations, he
EFFECTS lays down the basic principles of bureaucracy and
emphasises the division of labour, hierarchy,
SUPPLY rules and impersonal relationship.According to
the bureaucratic theory of Max Weber,
CHAIN bureaucracy is the basis for the systematic
formation of any organisation and is designed to
ensure efficiency and economic effectiveness.
BUREAUCRATIC
MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE
Max Weber’s six characteristics of the bureaucratic theory
Below is a more detailed explanation of the bureaucratic management principles.

The 6 bureaucracy characteristics are:

Task specialisation (Specialization and Division of Labor)

Hierarchical layers of authority
Formal selection
Rules and requirements
Impersonal (Impersonality and Personal Indifference)
Career orientation
 • Advantage - The great benefit of a bureacracy is that
large organisations with many hierarchical layers can
become structured and work effectively. It is precisely
the established rules and procedures that allows for high
efficiency and consistent execution of work by all
employees.

All this makes it easier for management to maintain

ADVANTAGES control and make adjustments when necessary.
VS Bureaucracy is especially inevitable in organisations
where legislation plays an important role in delivering a
DISADVANTAG consistent output.
• Disadvantage - This is the system’s biggest disadvantage
ES of a bureaucratic organization. It is also unfortunate that
employees remain fairly distanced from each other and
the organisation, making them less loyal.

Bureaucracy is also extremely dependent on regulatory

and policy compliance. This restricts employees to come
up with innovative ideas, making them feel like just a
number instead of an individual.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/
https://www.biography.com/scholar/max-weber#:~:text=Max%20W
eber%20was%20a%20precocious,1918%20and%20died%20in%20
1920
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https://www.toolshero.com/management/bureaucratic-theory-web
er/