Daily Times April 2, 2021 By virtue of a general theory of modern organization we can account for the behavior commonly observed in our bureaucracies. Organizational behavior, experts maintain, is in large part institutional in nature and is to be explained not by theories of individualistic psychology but rather by analysis of the system of order in which behavior occurs. The thesis is that modern bureaucratic organization is a composite of the traditional and the new. Upon the hierarchy of arbitrary authority have been superimposed increasingly technical and instrumental forms of specialization. This combination gives us our typical form of modern organization called by Max weber “bureaucracy. ” While technical specialization advances at a rapid rate, cultural definitions of authority roles do not, there results a gap of increasing width, therefore, between those who have the right to make decisions in modern organizations and those who have the ability.