Abstract
Abstract The aim of this article is to place affirmative action and equal opportunity policies in the context of Organization Theory. It does this by relating these policies to the ideal type of bureaucracy as described by Max Weber as well as his conception of rational action. One of the main arguments raised is that affirmative action and equal opportunity policies have contradictory implications for the ideal type of bureaucracy. Another is that acceptance of affirmative action, in particular, may require us to go beyond Weber's conceptual scheme. These ideas are illustrated by means of a consideration of the Employment Equity Act recently passed by the South African legislature.
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