Question

John Meyer and Brian Rowan’s (1977) findings about rules and procedures in organizations offer an important challenge to Max Weber’s characteristics of ideal bureaucracy because:

a) they demonstrate the power of informal networks to all levels of organization.

b) they show that formal rules are not always followed by organizational members and thus are often a myth used to justify decision-making.

c) they demonstrate that formal rules are identical to the practices that members of the organization adopt.

d) they show that informal networks are more important than formal rules adopted by organizational leaders.

Answer 1

Max Weber emphasized that organization work formally that they had hierarchies and and set of written rules. Thus,they function. Whereas,the findings of John Meyer and Brian Rowan's (1977) refuted and challenged this bureaucratic nature of organizations, as they stressed on the importance of informal relationship that worked within the organizations.

Answer. b) they show that formal rules are not always followed by organisational members and thus are often a myth used to justify this decision- making.