Bureaucracies have been around for a very long time. According to Volti, a bureaucracy is “an organizational structure based on impersonality, expertise, division of labor, hierarchy, written records, and definitive rules and procedures. The government created a bureaucracy to protect and control the population from other empires or other governments from taking over their businesses. To keep their businesses up to date and to maintain their empire the bureaucracy decided to collect taxes from their population to have financial support. Bureaucracies also involved themselves into economic activities they wanted to get money by the government control of other industries. The government could not get to involved because these industries were
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He believed that these bureaucratic structures were using rationality. There were two different types of rationality that he would work for bureaucracy which are substantive rationality and formal rationality. A substantive rationality is when people are using their social values, ethics, and morals to guide their actions. A formal rationality is when it is running by rules and regulations which can also be called “iron-cage” of rationality which is what people specifically set out to do. Modern bureaucracies have specific structural and functional characteristics about how they are intended to work. They have the division of labor that are specific task that they give workers whether it is achieved or ascribed positions that they get. This type of bureaucracy is found in manufacturing jobs where each person has a special job or task that has to be done. Also, they have the hierarchical authority when these people have the power and resources attached to their position where they get to tell people what to do. Also at the hierarchy level, they also have different roles that have to be done by other workers motivating them so that they can move up to a higher level. From the functional aspect of it they are efficient and effective, they go by written rules and regulations. Bureaucracies can also go by a …show more content…
For example, in a school system the teachers may not feel like the rules and regulations that the Department of Education give them is best for the children because what works for one child may not work for the other but they have to follow the rules because if they do not they may get fired. So how the school system is structured is not always good for bureaucratic organizations. They also may have a goal displacement where the workers are just following to the rules for the sake of following the rules. Modern bureaucracies may have restricted innovation where it is structured and works around the past where they may be used to it being ran a certain way and they do not want to change it. They may have the iron law of oligarchy where it is ruled by few but it consolidates the power and decision making where it leads to problems like alienation, which will lead to the separation of individual from work and from others. Bureaucratic organizations may have trained incapacity where they have these highly specialized train workers who cannot cross task. Finally, some organizations may go by the Peter principle where they are given social promotions to workers that are doing well at their task at the moment and then they are raise at a level of
He believed that these bureaucratic structures were using rationality. There were two different types of rationality that he would work for bureaucracy which are substantive rationality and formal rationality. A substantive rationality is when people are using their social values, ethics, and morals to guide their actions. A formal rationality is when it is running by rules and regulations which can also be called “iron-cage” of rationality which is what people specifically set out to do. Modern bureaucracies have specific structural and functional characteristics about how they are intended to work. They have the division of labor that are specific task that they give workers whether it is achieved or ascribed positions that they get. This type of bureaucracy is found in manufacturing jobs where each person has a special job or task that has to be done. Also, they have the hierarchical authority when these people have the power and resources attached to their position where they get to tell people what to do. Also at the hierarchy level, they also have different roles that have to be done by other workers motivating them so that they can move up to a higher level. From the functional aspect of it they are efficient and effective, they go by written rules and regulations. Bureaucracies can also go by a …show more content…
For example, in a school system the teachers may not feel like the rules and regulations that the Department of Education give them is best for the children because what works for one child may not work for the other but they have to follow the rules because if they do not they may get fired. So how the school system is structured is not always good for bureaucratic organizations. They also may have a goal displacement where the workers are just following to the rules for the sake of following the rules. Modern bureaucracies may have restricted innovation where it is structured and works around the past where they may be used to it being ran a certain way and they do not want to change it. They may have the iron law of oligarchy where it is ruled by few but it consolidates the power and decision making where it leads to problems like alienation, which will lead to the separation of individual from work and from others. Bureaucratic organizations may have trained incapacity where they have these highly specialized train workers who cannot cross task. Finally, some organizations may go by the Peter principle where they are given social promotions to workers that are doing well at their task at the moment and then they are raise at a level of