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Purpose and benefits

It is quite easy to make Weber’s book sound as if it was intended to be a source text for Franz Kafka’s novels and Charlie Chaplin’s film "Modern Times" , not to mention George Orwell’s "1984" . Weber is often incorrectly assumed to have been an advocate of bureaucracy and a mechanistic society, rather than someone who described bureaucracy—with at least some degree of correctness—as the most efficient and rational means of organisation. In fact, as R.J. Kilcullen puts it ‘bureaucracy was for Weber what capitalism was for Marx, the admired enemy’. No understanding of the way modern organisations work would be complete without a study of this book.