DOES WEBER'S IRON CAGE AFFECT ORGANİZATİONAL CHANGE?

Abstract

Today, there is a constant change in many areas such as political, cultural, economic, social and technological. Organizations that want to achieve sustainable competitive advantage in line with their specific objectives should also follow these changes closely and adapt to them changes. Weber calls the situation in which the modern world is shaped in a rational bureaucratic structure, and individuals who are compelled to obey orders and become standardized by hindering their creativity, are to stay in an iron cage. In short, it is the mechanization of the individual by removing all kinds of individual characteristics, that is, the creation of modern slaves with their own rules. In this context, in this study, it is aimed to create a perspective on Weber's iron cage and organizational change concepts and seek answers to two questions. Can the isomorphic (isomorphic) organizational structure, which is the manifestation of the understanding of bureaucratic organization, survive in today's change environment? Or will organizations face a new understanding, flexible isomorphism?