Chapter 14 : Bureaucracy The Nature of Bureaucracy A bureaucracy is the name given to a large organization that is structured hierarchically to carry out specific functions. They are generally characterized by an organization chart. Public bureaucracies are basically any organization. They do not have a single set of leaders; they serve the citizenry. Private bureaucracies are those that have a single set of leaders-it’s board of directors. Government bureaucracies are not organized to make
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Bureaucracy and Development Today‚ virtually all developing countries are engaged in extensive and intensive programs and projects to bring about socio-economic development. These continual development means to fashion entire societies‚ and to improve conditions and achievement in all sectors- agriculture and industry (with regard to environment protection)‚ education‚ health‚ urban and rural development‚ transport‚ communication and social welfare. Indeed‚ development has become the entire politics
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Every individual has a different set of needs and wants. Needs refer to the essential and basic requirements of all humans in order to survive. These needs comprise of food‚ water‚ shelter and warmth. Wants‚ on the contrary‚ are all the unnecessary desires and wishes humans make to satisfy themselves. Marketing exists to identify and ultimately explain the decisions people make in order to satisfy their needs and wants. In addition‚ marketing is about understanding the behavior of people. Marketing
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Research Paper SOC 454-002 Law Enforcement and Society November 12‚ 2013 How does Law Enforcement respond to gangs? Introduction Law enforcement agencies have a variety of tasks at hand that they have to perform; protecting‚ serving and problem solving are just a few. This research paper will look into how law enforcement responds to gangs‚ the background on police and gang relationships‚ and why the creation of gang police units. Multiple studies will be used
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Can we blame women’s inferior position in the workplace on bureaucracy? Provide a critical discussion. Many arguments have been held on‚ whether the bureaucratic organisational structure and culture has led to the inferior positions that women hold in the workplace. Two prominent feminists Rosabeth Kanter and Kathy Ferguson bring out two arguments surrounding this argument. Rosabeth Kanter holds the position that it is not bureaucracy that causes women to have inferior positions in the workplace
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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theorizes that an employee’s most basic needs must be met before he will be motivated by higher needs. The hierarchy consists of five categories physiological‚ safety‚ belongingness‚ esteem and finally self-actualization. Maslow theorized that we are driven by primary needs‚ however the strongest source of motivation is the lowest unsatisfied need at the time; as the lower level need is satisfied the next higher need in the hierarchy becomes the primary motivator. With
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REACTION PAPER ON THE IDEAL BUREAUCRACY BY MAX WEBER SUMMARY: Max Weber was a German sociologist who studied a variety of human interaction and developed a number of social theories. One of the highlights of his career work was his "ideal bureaucracy" theory‚ to which he defined bureaucracy as having certain characteristics that make up the bureaucratic entity. According to Max Weber‚ the authority in ideal bureaucracy revolves around legal competence and functions according
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official acts or duties. Zambia’s state of bureaucracy battles with the affect effect of colonialism. This therefore has undermined and reduced the efficacy of the bureaucracy. This can be seen in areas such as education‚ managerial styles‚ organizational structure‚ and sociocultural environment. As a result‚ of the after effect of the colonial government which strongly ruled Zambia‚ administrative discretion which is an important attribute in any bureaucracy has been severely lacking. South Africa
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The Professional in Bureaucracy- Physician Owned Services In order to understand what is going to be discussed we must first define bureaucracy. According to Wikipedia‚ bureaucracy is the combined organizational structure‚ procedures‚ protocols‚ and set of regulations in place to manage activity‚ usually in large organizations (Wikipedia 2010). Basically bureaucracy is a chain-of-command type of organization. Within this type of organization problems can arise between the physician and the organization
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different to the rest of society. Identity states how ones need to be. It is a self-representation of ones interests‚ relationships‚ social activities and more. Sometimes‚ when ones identity is totally different to the rest of society‚ it will be dangerous because of bullying or discrimination. However‚ it is needed to be different to the rest of society in order to be ourselves. It is dangerous to have different appearance or style of clothing to the rest of society. Clothing is functioning
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