Importance Of Bureaucracy In School

Register to read the introduction… This type of authority rests on the belief in the legality of formal rules and hierarchy and in the right of these elevated in the hierarchies and in the right of those elevated in the hierarchy to possess, authority and issue commands. Authority is given to officials based on their skills, position and authority placed formally in each position. Rational legal authority can take a variety of structural forms but the form that most interested Weber was bureaucracy which he considered "the purest type of exercise of legal authority" that every position in the hierarchy has powers which are legitimate. Decision-making can be done in the highest positions of the pyramidal structure. From a technical point of view of bureaucracy is capable of attaining the highest degree of efficiency and is in this sense formally the most rational known means of exercising …show more content…
The jurisdictional areas are clearly specified and each has a set of official duties and rights that cannot be changed at the whim of the leader. The offices carry with them a set of obligations to perform various functions in the means of compulsion required to do the job. Thus in bureaucracy each member has a specific task to for the school organization to meet its objectives. According to Wikipedia.org bureaucracy is a division of labor applied to administration. It is the rules will desk or office that is a form of organization built on the preparation and dispatch of written documents. This implies that various tasks allocated to different specialized human resources who work for the common good of the organization. The primary schools are comprised of various levels of leadership. Like the human body it is different parts but all these parts work together harmoniously for the common good of the school. Failure by one of these hierarchies to function adversely will affect the entire system since they are integrated and also playing complimentary roles. Thus at school different teachers allocated to different roles at school. That's when we find sports coordinator, entertainment coordinator, school health master, garden master, the headmaster, teacher in charge etc. Promotion can also be based on seniority and credentials. This division of labor should minimize arbitrary assignment of duties found in more to traditional