Bureaucracy

According to introduction to Sociology 2e a bureaucracy is “Formal organizations characterized by a hierarchy authority, a clear division of labor, explicit rules and impersonality. “ Max Weber said that a bureaucracy normally would have four definite characteristics. Hierarchy of Authority, a clear division of labor, explicit rules, and impersonality. Some people say that companies like General Motors, Amazon, and Facebook are bureaucracies. Let’s explore this proposition. I think that they…

The federal bureaucracy is divided into fifteen different executive departments and hundreds of agencies, bureaus, boards, authorities, and administrations. The bureaucracy also includes independent agencies and government corporations such as the post office (Shmoop). The bureaucracy is a body of unelected official that are responsible for handling and enforcing day to day responsibilities made by the president and congress. So who controls the bureaucracy? All three of the branches have some…

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…

Max Weber descried bureaucracies as, “a type of formal organization constituted to accomplish a specific goal, task, or production outcome in the most efficient manner (Weber, 1947). With that saying, each bureaucracy can be identified by five characteristics: a hierarchical authority structure, specialization (division of labor), written rules, written communications/records, and impersonality/replaceability. Some examples of bureaucracies are, large companies and businesses, organizations, as…

Question #1 The bureaucracy has a big role in the mechanics of the American government, they are hard-working to keep everything running smoothly and efficiently. Furthermore, the bureaucracy implement the laws and policies made by elected officials, they also provide necessary administrative functions like conducting examination ensuring permits and licenses and collecting fees,and regulating various government activities. In addition to the bureaucracy has some key characteristics such as,…

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY The term bureaucracy has been defined as "a body of non-elective government officials" and/or "an administrative policy-making group". Historically, bureaucracy was government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials. Today, bureaucracy is the administrative system governing any large institution1. Bureaucracy encompasses both public and private sector organizations that are large, hierarchically organized and highly…

A bureaucracy is a systematic organisational structure that is hierarchical and rigid which focusses on centralised power. This centralised power provides the organisation with the authority to direct and control employees via an autocratic leadership style. Each employee specialises in an area, however, this specialisation can actually de-skill employees. In contrast, a post-bureaucracy employs a horizontal structure with decentralised power which enables employee empowerment (Clegg et al.…

Over the course of this class we learned many concepts. They were all important in their own way and each explain why some people act the way they do. One concepts that I found interesting was Max Weber’s Ideal Type Bureaucracy. Weber’s concept is divided into seven parts; division of labor, hierarchy of authority, standard and codified norms, technical competence, disinterested role-enactment, advancement protocol, and extensive record keeping. We can find examples of each of these things…

Leadership of Public Bureaucracies – The Administrator as Conservator November 3, 2010 In Leadership of Public Bureaucracies – The Administrator as Conservator, Larry D. Terry explores public administration from a relatively new perspective, that of Bureaucratic Leadership, which he describes as historically neglected by scholars. Bureaucratic leadership, according to Terry, is “…institutional leadership in the administration of public bureaucracies within the executive branch of all…

ACS identifies with the bureaucracy organizational structure is the different levels of hierarchy. A bureaucratic organization structure has different levels of hierarchy, with the highest level making the authoritative decisions and the lowest levels following the commands given (Netting, Kettner, McMurty & Thomas, 2012). Decision for the ACS are made at a Department of Defense command level and passed down through the rank structure. By following…