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Select a bureaucracy with which you are familiar and analyze the extent to which it is accurately described by Weber's six-point ideal-type model. How would you account for any variations you may have identified?

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As you select a bureaucracy with which you are familiar and analyze the extent to which it is accurately described by Weber's six-point ideal-type model, I chose a school, a junior high to be exact, in order to assess Max Weber's six key characteristics of bureaucracy.

First off, the stage, division of labor, is embraced by a school. There is work/task allocation to staff from secretaries, attendance and financial clerks, teachers, ...

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