FORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS IN NIGERIA: OBJECTIVES AND PROBLEMS

Abstract

This study undertook to discover why organizations are created and if organizations actually work according to expectations. The study built on Max Weber’s analysis of bureaucracy and argued that the very characteristic nature of organizations is also the major problem they have in performing their functions in society.  The paper argues that the knowledge and powers that organizations have also help in affecting their efficiency and touch on society. It shows that the impersonal rules that characterize organizations also produce inefficient and self-defeating behaviours in them. At the end, it was recommended among others that further studies are needed in this area in order to discover what affects and or does not affect organizations so as to make them function optimally. Two, treating organizations as active institutions in society will help to understand how they construct and impact the social world. It was also recommended that organizations be treated as independent entities so that they can continue to impact their social environment positively and minimize tendencies of conflict in society. This can be done when a wider perceptual view is placed on functions of organizations. Following Weber’s caution on the nature of bureaucracies be controlled so as to curtail the tendency of undermining the personal freedom of its social environment.