Advantages And Disadvantages Of Bureaucracy

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5. Strengths and weaknesses of bureaucracy. There is no such bureaucracy ever existed that has all the positive note. The strengths and weaknesses that exists in the bureaucracy institution either in the ‘work process’ or in the ‘rules and regulations’ identified as follows: Strength: • Better Control. With clear rules and regulations, there will be better and more control over the employees of any specific bureaucratic institution. • Better Reporting Relationship. With proper structured organization, the reporting relationships are clear and well defined and this will avoid confusion. • Centralized Decision. Any decision made within the organisation is centralized and objectives, therefore, all decisions can be monitored. • Standardization. Again with structured organization, all work processes are according to standard set. The standard is part of standard of procedure (SOP) and will be used as guidelines and all employees have to follow the same procedures all the time. Weaknesses: • Slow Decision Making. With multi layers of hierarchy, and decision making process has to go through these layers or levels, therefore it will be slow to arrive to any decision. • Repetitive. The work processes tend to be standard and repetitive, therefore will create monotony. • Multiple Layers of Hierarchy and Communication. Communication will slowly be distorted after gone through many layers or levels of hierarchy. • Too Much Control. With too much control and monitoring,

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