Question

According to Max Weber, rationality in firms means employee selection and advancement based not on whom you know, but rather on competence and technical qualifications, which are assessed by examination or according to specific training and experience. This forms the basis of the _____ approach of the classical perspective of management thinking.

a. scientific management
b. bureaucratic organizations
c. administrative principles
d. behavioral sciences

Answer 1

Answer: Option (B). Bureaucratic organizations.

Marx Weber was convinced that organization based on rationality, where authority was given to the most competent and most qualified individual, it will result efficiency than those based on who you know. Marx Webber called this type of rational organization a bureaucracy.

Classical perspective of management focused more on improving the workers productivity. Marx Weber believes in the theory of management which focus on rationalization, rules and expertise for an organization as a whole. Weber’s theory also focus on efficiency and clear and distinct roles in an organization. Marx Weber believes that management should run effectively as possible with little bureaucracy.