Diana Carter Sociology 201 Bureaucracy and its Characteristics According to the Webster’s dictionary bureaucracy is a complex structure of office‚ tasks‚ and rules in which employees have specific responsibilities and work within a hierarchy of authority. Bureaucracy is all around us. Bureaucracies are found in our government‚ corporations‚ schools‚ and the everyday workforce in general. All bureaucrats answer to the chain of command that keeps responsibilities and assignments in order to
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Cons of Bureaucracy: One of the major weaknesses of bureaucracy is that it would eliminate the autonomy that the workers are used to having by standardizing work procedures‚ and by adopting clearly defined rules that instruct that them on how to work in every possible situation. This ‘standardization’ leads to the formation of routine tasks‚ which may eventually lead to the creation of a dissatisfied work force due to low levels of job-enrichment and self-actualization being achieved from completing
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Bureaucracy Paper In my life I have been a part of a few bureaucracies‚ now that I have joined the Army. In my opinion‚ I am in one of the world’s largest bureaucracies. Although‚ I don’t always believe that America’s views are always in the best interest‚ or of the people of this country‚ I do have to follow them and respect them. The military is ruled by office as well as the country. In the military‚ there are a lot of formal and informal normalities. For example‚ wearing of certain
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SOC 102 April 5‚ 2013 Bureaucracy Essay According to dictionary.com‚ bureaucracy in sociology is defined as‚ “A formal organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority‚ the existence of written rules of procedure‚ staffed by full-time salaried officials‚ and striving for the efficient attainment of organizational goals.” When people think of a bureaucracy‚ they think of the government. However‚ there are bureaucracies all over the place in many different businesses and organizations. One
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Bureaucracy and the Liberalisation After independence the newly emerged Indian State was characterized by the dominant role in all the spheres of society. It was a welfare state whose objective was to secure political‚ social and economic justice to all the sections of Indian population. The Westminister model of parliamentary democracy with universal adult franchise was adopted. In social field‚ various evils in the society were sought to be eradicated by the State. Untouchability was abolished
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Cultural Perspectives CCM International Journal of 2003 Vol 3(1): 121–144 Cross Cultural Management ‘To Adapt or Not to Adapt’ Exploring the Role of National Culture in HRM – A Study of Pakistan Shaista E. Khilji Carleton University‚ Ontario‚ Canada This study draws out evidence from 11 organizations‚ local as well as multinationals‚ in Pakistan to test the ‘culture-sensitive’ view. A number of conclusions are drawn. First‚ the findings support this view; evidence shows
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must be that bureaucracies replaced alternative institutional arrangements‚ primarily markets in the first half of the 20th century because they outperformed them. How? Presumably‚ or so Alfred Chandler argues‚ because of technological innovations that led to massive economies of scale and/or scope. What were the changes in technology that caused bureaucracies to out-perform markets? Here the surprising answer is changes in organizational arrangements themselves.
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developing a comprehensive annual budget‚ spending heavily for specialty software‚ staff overtime and temporary help for data entry. Perhaps even more costly (but less quantifiable) are the countless hours that senior managers‚ accountants‚ financial analysts and department managers spend to prepare‚ revise and consolidate budgets. • We spend more time creating a budget than analyzing it. • The budget bears little or no relation to our underlying business plan. • After the budget is approved‚ no one looks
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Budget Definition: An estimate of costs‚ revenues‚ and resources over a specified period‚ reflecting a reading of future financial conditions and goals. One of the most important administrative tools‚ a budget serves also as a (1) plan of action for achieving quantified objectives‚ (2) standard for measuring performance‚ and (3) device for coping with foreseeable adverse situation. What is a budget and why is it important? Simply put‚ a budget is an itemized summary of likely income and expenses
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Introduction A budget is a financial plan and a list of all planned expenses and revenues. It is a plan for saving‚ borrowing and spending. It is also an important concept in microeconomics‚ which uses a budget line to illustrate the trade-offs between two or more goods. In other terms‚ a budget is an organizational plan stated in monetary terms. But now-a-days a budget is something more than an estimate of revenue and expenditure. There is no alternative of budget for the implementation of development
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