Weber Bureaucracy Practice Knowledge Management Dilemma And Countermeasures

As a modern form of organization, the rational bureaucracy originated from the "era of Chimney Industry" has been dominating the administration of each nation's corporations and government for more than one century. Until now, this situation has not been changed fundamentally. With the coming of information economic era and post-industrial society, modern high-techniques bring more a radical revolution of ideas and systems than mere material revolution for human society. It is the innovation of ideas and systems that lead to the change of management mode-the rise of knowledge management.In the background of knowledge management, the rational bureaucracy is severely challenged due to its conflict with the characteristics of the age. In the era of knowledge management, the power of knowledge and man's function are sufficiently emphasized, and personified and individualized management is advocated. These changes pose challenges for the bureaucracy that emphasizes non-personified management. The revolution of computer and Internet also makes traditional administrative ideas and highly centralized organizational management undergo severe trial. Therefore, to reform the existing bureaucracy, to form and maintain a bureaucratic organization responsible and popular with the public, is one of the difficult problems for modernized and being modernized society-no matter whether they are capitalist or socialist society, developed or developing society.The thesis is composed of six parts:The first part mainly expounds the concepts of knowledge economy, knowledge, knowledge management and the main characteristics of knowledge management.The second part mainly discusses the predicament that Webster's rational bureaucracyconfronts in the background of knowledge management.The third part displays government's response to the innovation of knowledge management in administrational ideas, government organizational structure, government functional mode, and it presents as well the fresh changes that come from the construction of new government administration based on law's authority and fitting with knowledge management.After summarizing West countries quite effective "post-bureaucratic" reformation, the last two parts continue to analyze the problems of administrative management that face China who has also come to the age of knowledge management, and to map the road of bureaucratic development for Chinese government in the era of knowledge management.