Advantages Of Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is perceived as "an organisational form with certain dominant characteristics, such as hierarchy of authority and a system of rules” defined from the Management Theory and Practice book (G.A. Cole, Management Theory and Practice 6th Edition, p.p. 25). A simple understanding of it is to think of it as a form of organization or management structure that is designed with specific characteristics that identifies the bureaucracy structure such as its hierarchy of authority, detailed rules and regulations and more which will be mentioned further down the passage later. This is made, so that the organization can run smoothly and efficiently and is common in many large-scale organizations, quite a few of today’s large organization still uses this model.
It is useful to start with where it first began; the development of this idea regarding the organizational structure was originated by the German sociologist

First I will discuss the advantages of the structure as a whole. Before this we talked about the characteristics of a bureaucracy, one of which was having ‘rules and procedures’ having a set of rules makes the management process a lot easier since employees are bound to follow the rules. A further advantage is bureaucratic structures have a strong chain of command. Each employee has a clear role to do certain tasks; this makes the organization stable and efficient. Another advantage of bureaucracies for employees is job security such as a steady salary as well as insurance, medical and disability coverage and a retirement pension. Some advantage of bureaucracies is that they promote equal treatment of everyone and protect citizen’s interests. Furthermore bureaucracy made modern civilisation possible, without large complex organizations to coordinate the efforts of thousands of people, we would not have skyscrapers, vaccines, airplanes, automobiles, universities or even space