bureaucratization

Examples of bureaucratization in the following topics:

• Feedback, Concurrent Control, and Feedforward

  • Bureaucratic control uses formal systems to influence employee behavior and help an organization achieve its goals.
  • The biggest advantage of bureaucratic control is that it creates a command and control cycle for the business leadership.
  • This means that bureaucratic control can narrow the scope of possible ideas and plans.
  • Though bureaucratic organizational structures may seem less desirable than flatter structures, they are necessary at times.
  • An example of a bureaucratic feedback system is the military, with its strict hierarchy and clear chain of command.

• Bureaucracies and Formal Groups

  • A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can comprise the administration of any organization of any size, though the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government.
  • Bureaucrat jobs were historically often "desk jobs," though the modern bureaucrat may be found "in the field" as well as in an office.
  • Red tape is excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making.
  • As opposed to bureaucrats carrying out "desk jobs," street-level bureaucracy is the subset of a public agency or government institution containing the individuals who carry out and enforce the actions required by laws and public policies.
  • Street-level bureaucrats include police officers, firefighters, and other individuals, who on a daily basis interact with regular citizens and provide the force behind the given rules and laws in their areas of expertise.

• Termination

  • Bureaucratic reform includes the history of civil service reform and efforts to curb or eliminate excessive bureaucratic red tape.
  • On the other hand democracy is defined as: "government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system", thus not by non-elected bureaucrats.
  • A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can comprise the administration of any organization of any size, though the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government.
  • Bureaucrat jobs were often "desk jobs" (the French for "desk" being bureau, though bureau can also be translated as "office"), though the modern bureaucrat may be found "in the field" as well as in an office.
  • Red tape is excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making .

• Considering Company Size

  • Ideal for smaller companies, the pre-bureaucratic structure deliberately lacks standardized tasks and strategic division of responsibility.
  • A bureaucratic framework functions well in large corporations with relatively complex operational initiatives.
  • This structure is a combination of bureaucratic and pre-bureaucratic, where individual contribution and control are coupled with authority and structure.
  • Smaller companies function best as pre-bureaucratic or post-bureaucratic; the inherent adaptability and flexibility of the pre-bureaucratic structure is particularly effective for small companies aspiring to expand.
  • Larger companies, on the other hand, achieve higher efficiency through functional, bureaucratic, divisional, and matrix structures (depending on the scale, scope, and complexity of operations).

• Bureaucratic Reform

  • Bureaucratic reform in the U.S. was a major issue in the late 19th century and the early 20th century.
  • Bureaucratic reform in the United States was a major issue in the late nineteenth century at the national level and in the early twentieth century at the state level.
  • Second, the Pendleton Act required entrance exams for aspiring bureaucrats.
  • Describe the key moments in the history of bureaucratic reform, including the Tenure of Office Acts, the Pendleton Act, the Hatch Acts, and the Civil Service Reform Acts.

• The Growth of Bureaucracy

  • As modernity came into place in the Western hemisphere, the growth of bureaucratization came into place.
  • The growth of bureaucratization developed due to the rapid industrialization that United States was facing during the 19th century.
  • As Weber understood, particularly during the industrial revolution of the late 19th century, society was being driven by the passage of rational ideas into culture that in turn transformed society into an increasingly bureaucratic entity.
  • For example, one well-known bureaucratic agency in which people deal with regularly is the Department of Motor Vehicles.

• Bureaucratization of Schools

  • The bureaucratization of schools has some advantages but has also led to the perpetuation of discrimination and an aversion to change.
  • These groups are more likely to experience institutional discrimination in the bureaucratized school system.
  • For Weber, bureaucratization was the key process in his theory on rationalization of Western society.
  • In order to understand the bureaucratization of schools, we must understand the historical development of the school system.
  • Discuss the critical issues and historial origins of school bureaucratization, particularly in relation to educational reform and deliverance of service

• Models of Bureaucracy

  • Through rationalization, Weber understood the individual cost-benefit calculation and the wider, bureaucratic structure of organizations, which generally was the opposite of understanding reality through mystery and magic (disenchantment).
  • New structures of society were marked by two intermeshing systems that had taken shape around the organizational cores of capitalist enterprise and bureaucratic state apparatus.
  • Bureaucratization for Weber was the key part of the rational-legal authority.
  • The acquisition model of bureaucracy, meanwhile, can incite succession of roles and power between different bureaucratic departments.
  • At the same time, monopolistic bureaucracy does not provide room for competition within each bureaucratic department.

• Resocialization and Total Institutions

  • A total institution is a place where a group of people is cut off from the wider community and their needs are under bureaucratic control.
  • Within a total institution, the basic needs of a entire bloc of people are under bureaucratic control.
  • These needs are handled in an impersonal and bureaucratic manner.

• Making Policy

  • The actual development and implementation of policies are under the purview of different bureaucratic institutions.
  • However, the actual development and implementation of policies are under the purview of different bureaucratic institutions mainly comprised cabinet departments, independent executive agencies, government corporations, and regulatory agencies.
  • Another type of bureaucratic institution is a regulatory commission, an agency charged with writing rules and arbitrating disputes in a specific part of the economy.