martes, 16 de septiembre de 2008

Henry Fayol Vs. Max Weber




Administration is the social part in charge of optimize the products and the sources in order to have an economic development in other words to use the globalization in a better way as possible; Administration is the process of design and mantain an environment in wich people work together with efficiency for a common goal. this applies all kind of organizations like big and small, non profitable and profitable organizations, etc.


The administrative process is based in planning, controlling and implementing operations and this topics are established by important administrators like Henry Fayol and Max Weber.

First of all, Henry Fayol created the classical Theory that this was the first theory that was established, focused in increasing productivity by improving efficiency and the attention is focused in the work methodolog; the necessary movements to accomplish a task, stardardized times for its acomplishments and in the worker's specualization. On the other hand Max Weber has been one of the most influential users of the word in its social science sense. He is well-known for his study of bureaucratization of society. he was based on conducted with strict accordance to the rules and hierarchical positions.

In adition Max Weber described the ideal type bureaucracy in positive terms, considering it to be a more rational and efficient form of organization than the alternatives that preceded it, which he characterized as charismatic domination and traditional domination. According to his terminology, bureaucracy is part of legal domination. However, he also emphasized that bureaucracy becomes inefficient when a decision must be adopted to an individual case; Otherwise Henry Fayol talked about a team work without hierarchical positions and with the same opportunities to express ideas.
In Conclusion Max Weber and Henry Fayol are good administrators on their own way, they gave bases to a modern administration, doesn't matter if the enterprise is bureaucratic or classical, like vertical or horizontical enterprise.






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