Street-level bureaucracy

According to Weber (1946), the term bureaucracy is used to describe a hierarchical organizational structure where expert managers direct tasks assigned to qualified employees based on specific written rules and regulations (pp. 196-198). This describes are very rational and impersonal approach to management with clearly defined roles, formal record keeping, and one-size-fits-all rules (Daft 2013, p. 27). Weber identified the following dimensions as being necessary for a properly functioning…

crucial contribution to achieving objectives of efficiency and effectiveness. Thereafter, the general administrative theory which is one of the classical approach of management has been proposed. It has constructed a new perspective of management. Bureaucracy, one of the components of general administrative theory has been developed by Max Weber in early 1900s. It is usually used in large organizations and governments. However, there are…

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…

The scenario above simply explains a politics-administration dichotomous relationship that it is there in the modern public service management and it is no way to go. What matters most is the relationship between the levels of operation as their common denominator is to serve the public’s interests through policies and programs. A balancing or neutral point should be found and maintained by both in discharging public duties. During the development of the Wilsonian Theory of Dichotomy, it is as…

to authority since the leaders exercise their powers via their formal positions or their offices. Hence in many situations the organizations hierarchy ends up making most of the decisions irrespective of the view of those on below. Furthermore bureaucracy and structure influence each other in a way that the authority uses direction and orders that are mostly based on the formal laws and rules of the organization. Most cases ones authority is limited to the position but in a bureaucratic…

standard? A plethora of people holds the bureaucracies to a standard that is exhausting to obtain. Bureaucracies are made up of government workers, namely the people in the courthouse and city hall. Bureaucracies are held to a certain role that people expect them to live up to. Individuals have a perception that bureaucracies should be valuable and effective, but people don’t account for the challenges they acquire from external factors. In “Don’t Blame the Bureaucracy” by H. Brinton Milward and…

After the Second World War the administrative formalism was as yet the predominant perspective of association and administration. The past administration speculations which were ruling the perspective of the associations and administration that made by the traditional administration scholars, for example, Weber's organization and Taylor's logical administration. Frederick Taylor, Industrial Engineer and the American traditional scholar, who has begat the logical administration term. Taylor was…

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…

on the way political institutions has affected bureaucratic behavior. They explained that bureaucrats go through an adaptation processes in the political environment sending and receiving multiple stimuli and stimulus. Rourke (1991) explained the level of involvement of bureaucratic role in policy development and the way administrative agencies has been impacted by changes in the political arena. Synthesis Punctuations in the Local…

Scammers or swindlers seem to be everywhere: in the media, the market or in politics. They all possess one unique ability, which is artifice. Artifice is described by Chris Hedges as “the most essential skill…” (Prompt). In other words, artifice is the art of being clever or cunning, and Hedges explains in his passage, “Empire of Illusion,” that culture now revolves around artifice. Hedges provides the example that political leaders predominantly utilize artifice, in order to be eminent, thus…