ORGANIZATION IN SOCIETY

Organization in Society

Organization in Society

Introduction

Walgreen Company is the second largest pharmaceutical distribution chain in United States. The company is operating more than 7.600 pharmacies in all U.S, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The headquarters of Walgreen Company is located in Deerfield, Illinois. Walgreens is a distributor of pharmaceutical products in U.S. established in 1901 it has 6,237 stores. The major Competitor of Walgreen Comapany is CVS Pharmacy this is also one of the leading retail pharmacy (Brian, 2011). Compare to the CVS pharmacy, Walgreen has little low market share, while the number of stores is substantially equal. Walgreen offers its products and services in its drugstores, via mail, phone and internet. The Walgreen group markets the drug with and without prescriptions, and also offers a "catalog" of goods easy for their customers to shop products while they are at home.

In this paper, it will discuss the Weber Max beauracy models relation to the growth and success of the Walgreen Company. Max Weber was a German legal scholar, economist, and sociologist whose contributions to theory still reverberate in modern social thought. His name is associated with a wide range of concepts and pieces of theory. The former include, for instance, ideal type, status, social closure, legitimate domination, charisma, bureaucracy, rationalization, and the famous typology distinguishing instrumentally rational, value rational, traditional and affectual types of social action.

Weber's Bureaucracy and Beyond

Weber took his cues from the environmental context of his time—industrialization in a relatively stable or predictable environment. Bureaucracy represented an ideal type from which theorists and practitioners examined the fit between an industrial, relatively stable environment and its corresponding organizational form. Different types or forms of organization continue to develop in relation to their environments. They are a bureaucratic organization in a stable environment, an organic organization in a changing environment, and a transformistic organization in a turbulent or dynamic environment (Gerth & Wright, 1973).

The bureaucratic organization, with its hierarchical chain of command, system of rules, and division of labor, exists in a relatively stable environment, as described earlier. Organic structures occur primarily in a disturbed reactive environment that requires organizational adaptation to conditions of change. The disturbed reactive environment is no longer stable, and the organization must compete with numerous similar organizations. In this environmental context, organizations face unique and unfamiliar problems that cannot be broken down and distributed among specialists (Manville & Ober, 2003).

The concept of transformistic organizations proposes that in dynamic or turbulent environments, organizations must generate transformation on multiple levels individual, organizational, and societal if they are to change in ways that will both ensure their own viability and improve the overall well-being of society. At the same, time leaders and members remain true to the organization's core values and ethics. This form of organization can partially or completely change its human capabilities, structure, and/or functions in alignment with its core values and unifying purpose to respond to or directly impact needs that arise from the dynamic field of the ...