Weber on legitimate authority and bureaucracy
Rules and offices outlive even the most compelling founder. Weber thought that was both progress and a cage.
Weber splits the question 'why does anyone obey?' into three answers, and only the third one survives the person leaving.
- The situation
One person has carried the club for three years; he graduates in June, and nobody on the board knows how the bank, the mail and the social accounts are handled.
- What the model says
Charismatic authority cannot be inherited: the club will collapse not because everyone else is lazy but because authority was never moved out of the person and into the office.
- What you do
This week write one description of the office — what that person does, what they hold, and who replaces them — and put it into the club's documents.
What it claims
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Who created it
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Why this is your problem
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Why gslk uses it
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Where it runs in the product
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Source
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Of the ten gslk competency domains, this work grounds:
The same work written for a member: what to do with it in the club.
This text is freely available, so the links go straight to it rather than to a summary of it.
- From Max Weber (Gerth and Mills) — the bureaucracy chapter in English
- Stanford Encyclopedia on Max Weber
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