Max Weber’s management theory promotes a structured hierarchy, clear rules and impersonal relationships to increase efficiency and eliminate favoritism.

I n 1917 and 1919, at the invitation of University of Munich students, Max Weber delivered two public lectures, “Science as a Vocation” and “Politics as a Vocation.” Why read these lectures today?

I n the summer of 1917, a group of university students in Munich invited Max Weber to launch a lecture series on “intellectual work as a vocation” with a talk about the scholar’s work. He was, in a ...

A leader who had promised the best of times had led the nation to the worst of times. Impulsive and ignorant, he disdained the civil servants his predecessors depended upon and had instead surrounded ...

IN JANUARY 1919 Munich was in turmoil. Revolution in November of the previous year had swept away the King of Bavaria, installing a ramshackle regime headed by a messianic journalist of the radical ...

Max Weber (1864-1920) was a German sociologist who taught both before and during the first world war at the universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg and Munich. He would probably be slightly bemused by ...

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Chris Fleming does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Civic Memorial Eagles cross country coach Jake Peal was not at the finish line to watch senior Max Weber become a state champion on Saturday. Peal stayed back to tend to the rest of his Eagles. He had ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of New York painter and sculptor Max Weber measure 11.6 linear feet and date from 1902-2008. The collection documents Weber's career as ...