Elements Of Bureaucracy

Each and every organization has a certain objective to achieve. Since every employee is not

sharing same objectives a need of managing their activities is needed to meet the goals of the

company or project. The Bureaucracy was found by Max Weber (WeeKoh, 2009). According

to him Bureaucracy “is a system of administration characterized by expertness, impartiality

and the absence of humanity” (Shelly Shah, 2014) and also literary means “rule by office”

(Sparknotes, n.d). Governments and large private companies can be named as bureaucracies.

Following can be identified as some of the elements of bureaucracy. It has a formal

hierarchical structure. Formal structure is primarily concerned with the relationship between

authority and

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bureaucracy company is managing by rules. Controlling the employees by rules allows

decisions made at high levels of the hierarchical structure to be executed consistently by all

lower levels. Also company is organized by functional specialty. Under this the company

assign the people into categories based on the type of work they do or skills they have. For

example having separate divisions for marketing, accounting and sales. Include with an "up-

focused" or "in-focused" mission (Kenneth B. Johnston, 1993). Up-focused is to serve the

stockholders or board straightforwardly accountable for the association where in-focused is to

serve the organization and those within it. All decisions are impersonal. Policies ahead of

personalities that all individuals are treated the same way (Kenneth B. Johnston, 1993).

The use of this theory was found in early times in history in the Roman army, the Catholic

Church, administration of agricultural irrigation systems, as well though it is prominently

visible in the huge scale organization of offices of the present day state and modern business

corporations. “In both the public and private sectors, the bureaucracy represents

This provide a series of literature, furthermore working on chiefs

settling on asserts that administration may be. An organization form more or less in

opposition with the knowledge of modernization and creativity. “The bureaucrat is narrow-

minded and focused on details, the” “creative individual” (Dyer & Dyer, 1965, p. 41) still,

Dyer and Dyer (1965) propose that inventiveness is conceivable in bureaucratic organizations

if one reduce the rigidities of the mechanism. As well as benefits Weber’s model has some

drawbacks. In short it has rigidity, impersonality, excessive cost of control, inordinate

reliance on bosses, propensity to ignore organizational goals. This systematic way is mostly

in view of paper work. The advancement of the association was not done by the employees.

Employees are mostly treated as machines. Though rules are there to provide guidelines, the

overuse of the rules make them inefficiency. Congenial organizational climate can be created

within the company by the over emphasizes of the rigid organizational hierarchy. Since

humans have feeling and emotions, dealing with them in an impersonal approach will not

work always in project management. The bureaucracy finally created a high class of