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The Weberian bureaucracy that emerged in the early 20th century, thanks to Max Weber's works on bureaucracy, is now widely spread across the public and private sectors. However, it is not a perfect structure and has several disadvantages that this essay will cover. This required a shift to a new and improved way of organizing work. It is widely believed that post-bureaucracy has now stepped in as an organizational structure that eliminates the negative aspects of bureaucracy, but we need evidence for this argument. In this essay I will try to show that a new form of organization is used today, making a comparison of how managerial work is carried out today and before the intervention of post-bureaucracy. With the advent of industrialization, the labor administration did not address the problems there was no shortage of, but with the expansion of structures this led to the need for a new and more complex organization. Offe (1976) argues that there are two types of organization, “continuous task” and “discontinuous task”. The first is typical of small businesses where employees are involved in the management of the business. Large organizations are recognized as last, the people who carry out the work in these organizations are not involved in the administrative structures of the company at all. Today in our economic life we ​​observe the most common form of "discontinuous task organization": bureaucracy. Max Weber's works on bureaucracy have an enormous influence on our understanding of organizational structures and how they are implemented in businesses. He outlined the key characteristics which are as follows: Division of labor, which means that each individual is assigned a specific task, responsibilities are carefully defined. Hierarchical structure… middle of paper… private examples of information-based organization will provide a better understanding of the concept. As a good example we can consider hospitals where "each specialty has its own knowledge, its own training, its own language" Drucker, P. (1988). In each department there are specialists who “report directly to the top and there is little middle management” Drucker, P. (1988) and each individual takes responsibility for information. Drucker (1988) argues that large business organizations need to change to last, but a comparative study needs to be done to show whether any changes have been undergone in businesses over the years. Works Cited Drucker, P. (1988). The advent of the new organization. Harvard Business Review, January-February: 45.Chapter 12 in Fincham, R. and Rhodes, P. (2005). Principles of organizational behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press.