Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each thinker to their contribution on bureaucracy.
- Max Weber
- Robert Merton
- Michel Crozier
- Patrimonial administration
- The vicious circle of rules and rigidity
- Conformity becomes the objective the organisation pursues
- What the model was built to replace
- The ideal type, and the warning about the iron cage
Hints
- Three are theorists and one is the arrangement they were all describing an alternative to.
- The one about displaced goals is Merton.
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- Max Weber → The ideal type, and the warning about the iron cage
- Robert Merton → Conformity becomes the objective the organisation pursues
- Michel Crozier → The vicious circle of rules and rigidity
- Patrimonial administration → What the model was built to replace
Why
Including the fourth item deliberately: the model is unreadable without knowing what it replaced. Every feature that looks like formality for its own sake was answering an administration in which office was property and decisions were personal.
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