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Formal Organizations

Formal Organizations . Unit 3: Socialization. Formal Organizations. We spend most of our lives interacting with secondary groups Formal organization : large, complex secondary group that has been established to achieve specific goals Examples?. Bureaucracy .

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Formal Organizations

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  1. Formal Organizations Unit 3: Socialization

  2. Formal Organizations • We spend most of our lives interacting with secondary groups • Formal organization: large, complex secondary group that has been established to achieve specific goals • Examples?

  3. Bureaucracy • Many formal organizations are structured in a form called bureaucracy • Bureaucracy: a ranked authority structure that operates according to specific rules and procedures

  4. Bureaucracy • Weber believed bureaucracies arise in industrial societies because of an increasing tendency towards rationalization • Examples?

  5. Weber’s Model of Bureaucracies • Division of Labor • Ranking of Authority • Employment Based on Formal Qualifications • Rules and Regulations • Specific Lines of Promotion and Advancement

  6. Bureaucracies • Pros? • Cons?

  7. Bureaucracies: Pros • Things get done quickly and efficiently • Can achieve large-scale goals • High level of production • Create order  clearly defined job tasks and rewards

  8. Bureaucracies: Cons • Idea of self-continuation  goals of individuals get lost • Bureaucratic personalities form  loss of creativity • “Red Tape”  causes delays • Tendency to result in oligarchies

  9. Bureaucracies • Power tends to concentrate in the hands of a few people • They use their power to promote their own interests • Sociologist Robert Michels calls this the iron law of oligarchy  the tendency of organizations to become increasingly dominated by small groups of people

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