What is Bureaucracy Bureaucracy is created with the
What is Bureaucracy? * Bureaucracy is created with the emergence of country, is a long standing and complex social historical phenomenon. * Management or administration marked by diffusion of authority among numerous offices and adherence to inflexible rules of operation. Munif Ahmad
* Red tape and formalism, subjectivism, authoritarianism * Bureaucracy is one of the great tools of civilization. * Bureaucracy is an often maligned term in the political world. It is reviled by those seeking office and cursed at by voters. Munif Ahmad
A set of 4 structural dimensions of an organization formalization n centralization n complexity n personnel ratios n Munif Ahmad
Bureaucracy? n It is a way to run large organizations. The "need" for bureaucracy as a tool to run large organizations is illustrated by the contemporary comment of a railroad director. Munif Ahmad
The benefits of bureaucracy make it attractive to many. Increased efficiency can lead to better medical care, better traffic control, a better economy, and all sorts of benefits which make life run smoothly. Bureaucracy is a powerful bulwark against revolution, subversion and over-enthusiasm. It can protect scarce resources, allocate wealth more fairly and protect the weak from the strong. Munif Ahmad
n So there is very often a growing desire to control through administrative action, to use bureaucracies as an arm of government. The State holds the people together primarily through administrative centralization. As it seeks to extend its power, so it increases its chief tool of power, bureaucracy. There is a powerful pressure towards multiplying the number and control of bureaucrats. Munif Ahmad
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