<P> According to Weber, if' tenure for life' is legally guaranteed, an office becomes perceived as less prestigious than a position that can be replaced at any time . If' tenure for life' or a' right to the office' develops, there is a decrease in career opportunities for ambitious new hires and overall technical efficiency becomes less guaranteed </P> <P> In a bureaucracy, salaries are provided to officials . The amount is determined on the basis of rank and helps to signify the desirability of a position . Bureaucratic positions also exist as part of stable career tracks that reward office - holders for seniority . </P> <P> Weber argues that the development of a' money economy' is the "normal precondition for the unchanged survival, if not the establishment, of pure bureaucratic administrations". Since bureaucracy requires sustained revenues from taxation or private profits in order to be maintained, a money economy is the most rational way to ensure its continued existence . </P> <P> Weber posits that officials in a bureaucracy have a property right to their office and attempts at exploitation by a superior means the abandonment of bureaucratic principles . He articulates that providing a status incentive to inferior officers helps them to maintain self - respect and fully participate in hierarchical frameworks . Michel Crozier reexamined Weber's theory in 1964 and determined that bureaucracy is flawed because hierarchy causes officers to engage in selfish power struggles that damage the efficiency of the organization . </P>

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