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    Bureaucracy refers to the administrative system governing any large organization, including both public and private sectors. [Max Weber] is considered the father of modern bureaucracy, identifying key characteristics like hierarchical structures, division of labor, and standardized processes and rules. Bureaucrats implement government policy by administering services, enforcing regulations, and ensuring large organizations function efficiently according to everyone's defined roles. While sometimes seen as inefficient, bureaucracy allows thousands of people to work compatibly toward shared goals.

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    Bureaucracy refers to the administrative system governing any large organization, including both public and private sectors. [Max Weber] is considered the father of modern bureaucracy, identifying key characteristics like hierarchical structures, division of labor, and standardized processes and rules. Bureaucrats implement government policy by administering services, enforcing regulations, and ensuring large organizations function efficiently according to everyone's defined roles. While sometimes seen as inefficient, bureaucracy allows thousands of people to work compatibly toward shared goals.

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    Bureaucracy refers to the administrative system governing any large organization, including both public and private sectors. [Max Weber] is considered the father of modern bureaucracy, identifying key characteristics like hierarchical structures, division of labor, and standardized processes and rules. Bureaucrats implement government policy by administering services, enforcing regulations, and ensuring large organizations function efficiently according to everyone's defined roles. While sometimes seen as inefficient, bureaucracy allows thousands of people to work compatibly toward shared goals.

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    What is Bureaucracy?

    • Bureaucracy is the administrative body of


    appointed officials.
    • A bureaucracy is a way of administratively
    organizing large numbers of people who need
    to work together.
    • Organizations in the public and private sector
    rely on bureaucracies to function.
    • The term bureaucracy literally means “rule by
    desks or offices,” a definition that highlights
    the often impersonal character of
    bureaucracies. Even though bureaucracies
    sometimes seem inefficient or wasteful,
    setting up a bureaucracy helps ensure that
    thousands of people work together in
    compatible ways by defining everyone’s roles
    within a hierarchy.
    What Bureaucrats Do?
    • Government bureaucrats perform a wide
    variety of tasks.

    • The job of a bureaucrat is to implement


    government policy.
    • To take the laws and decisions made by
    elected officials and put them into practice.
    • Some bureaucrats implement policy by writing
    rules and regulations, whereas others
    administer policies directly to people.
    • The task of running the government and
    providing services through policy formulation
    and policy implementation is called public
    administration.
    Max Weber
    • Max Weber, (born in April 21, 1864, Erfurt,
    Prussia [now Germany]—died in June 14,
    1920, Munich, Germany), German sociologist
    and political economist best known for his
    thesis of the “Protestant Ethic,” relating
    Protestantism to capitalism, and for his ideas
    on bureaucracy. He is considered as the father
    of bureaucracy.
    Characteristics of Bureaucracy

    • Max Weber wrote about the emergence of


    bureaucracy from more traditional
    organizational forms and it's rising pre-
    eminence in modern society.
    • Scott defines bureaucracy it as "the existence of
    a specialized administrative staff".
    • According to Weber, bureaucracy is a particular
    type of administrative structure developed
    through rational-legal authority.
    Characteristics of Bureaucracy:

    1. It follows hierarchical principle -- subordinates follow orders or


    superiors. Each lower officer is under the control and supervision of
    a higher one.

    2. Jurisdictional areas are clearly specified, activities are distributed as


    official duties.

    3. Formal and written rules govern decisions and actions. Decisions are
    recorded in permanent files.

    4. Means of production or administration belong to office. Personal


    property separated from office property.
    5. A notable feature of bureaucracy is that relationships among
    individuals are governed through the system of official authority and
    rules. Official positions are free from personal involvement, emotions
    and sentiments. Thus, decisions are governed by rational factors rather
    than personal factors. This impersonality concept is used in dealing with
    organizational relations as well as relations between the organization
    and outsiders.

    6. Officials are selected on basis of qualifications, appointed not elected,


    and compensated by salary. Employment by the organization is a
    career. The official is a full-time employee and looks forward to a life-
    long career. After a trial period they get tenure of position and are
    protected from arbitrary dismissal.
    In short, the characteristics of bureaucracy are:
    • Hierarchical authority
    • Division of labour
    • Written rules and written documents
    • Personal property separated from office
    property.
    • Impersonal relationships
    • Career Service

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