Comparison of Weberian and Neoweberian State (Source: Author’s own research)
| Comparison criteria | Weberian administration | Neoweberian administration |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | State’s function | Strategic planning, state administration, and performance monitoring and assessment |
| Legitimacy tool | Representative democracy | Transparency, merit, participation |
| Legal infrastructure | Using administrative law to control citizen-state relations | Administrative law regulations: adaptable and flexible, robust for the career system |
| Aim | Maintaining public service bureaucracy | Using e-Government to reduce bureaucracy and strengthen the central administration’s guidance role |
Taylorist and Neotaylorist Administration Theory (Source: Peaucelle, 2000, pp_457-458)
| Comparison criteria | Taylorism | Neotaylorism |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Economic growth, mass production, and labor productivity | Work satisfaction, productivity, and employee welfare |
| Sectorial area | Industrial companies | Digital companies, public and private sectors |
| Control | Limited to unit chiefs | Comprehensive technological tools |
| Mission | Job descriptions in science involving motion and time studies | Technology-driven task simplification |
| Tools for achieving goals | Labor division, automation, processes, and high wages | Flexibility, process reengineering, automation, and delivering unique products to audiences services |