Sandesh JainAIR 161 · CSE 2025 · 167 wordsTheir whole copy
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Weber described bureaucracy as hierarchical formal organization designed legally rationally to co-ordinate complex task in pursuit of organisational goals.
Bureaucracy as rational form of organization
- Works on basis of written rules and regulation i.e. legal rationality
- Principle of hierarchy → works on principle of subordination and superordination
- spirit of impersonality → remains impartial to all.
- division of labour → work is rationally divided among bureaucrats
however at certain instances it exhibit or act as irrational form of organization.
(1) Red tapism - Deliberate delay in execution of tasks.
(2) Michael Reed describe it as 'iron cage of bureaucracy' where bureaucrat has no freedom to display creativity and innovation.
(3) Lipset in his study of commonwealth games highlighted how bureaucracy served the interest of capitalists.
(4) Milovan Djilas in his study of socialist & communist regime of Yugoslavia highlighted nexus between bureaucracy and political structure.
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despite above facts, bureaucracy is one of the important pillar of democracy that acts rationally to uphold public welfare