A bureaucracy is a way of administratively organizing large numbers of people who need to work together. Even though bureaucracies sometimes seem inefficient or wasteful, setting up a bureaucracy helps ensure that groups of people work together in specific ways by defining everyone’s roles within a hierarchy. The job of a bureaucrat is to implement government policy, or take the laws and decisions made by elected officials and put them into practice. Some bureaucrats implement policy by writing rules and regulations, whereas others administer policies directly to the people. One way to understand what bureaucrats do is to look at the actions of different government agencies. If the government said we must focus on illegal aliens and border control, agencies like the border patrol, Coast guard and CIA, put motions in effect to combat the current issue. However, there are three main factors on who will do the leg work to complete the given task: the vigor and vision of their leadership, their resources, and the extent of which elite’s influence implementation. Communication and cooperation through agencies is not uncommon but unlikely due to the fact that agencies are trying to complete their own goals and are not aware they share the same/similar goals with neighboring agencies. When a bureaucracy works well, it harnesses many…
“Bureaucracy literally means “rule by office,” which emphasizes the fact that it is not ruled by persons” (Weinstein, 2010, p. 111). For the first 8 years of my counseling, career I worked in an evidence-based behavioral modification program called the Crest program. In order to be a part of the program the clients had to volunteer and the staff had to agree to work in a prison based program. The program is a bureaucracy because it is ruled by an office not just by one person. For example, the program consisted of a top of the house, Expeditors, creative groups, and ways and means, which was essentially the janitorial staff. Each of these groups was headed by a staff member or several staff members and in order for the program to successfully…
The Government didn't start out as a bureaucracy. It started growing over because the president wants expand the party's power so the opponent party doesn't have much control. It stated in the…
Modern Bureaucracy in the United States serves to administer, gather information, conduct investigations, regulate, and license. Once set up, a bureaucracy is inherently conservative. The reason the bureaucracy was initiated may not continue to exist as a need in…
How necessary is bureaucracy? If we can agree that individuals need rules and regulations to live together, then there must also be a bureaucracy. Rules and regulations are meaningless unless they are administered; the bureaucracy is necessary for the administration.…
Bureaucracy within the government of Texas may be thought of as nothing more nor less than a form of organization. Bureaucracy is a system of government or business that has many complicated rules and ways of doing things. I will be exploring this interpretation of bureaucracy and bureaucrats within in relation to a system and rational factor. There are two models of bureaucracy, which are rational models and non-rational models. The lobbyist is an individuals employed by the interest groups who tries to influence the government.…
Bureaucracy may seem like something that was made during the modern times, but actually it has served in our government for almost as long as the government has existed. As a result of the use of bureaucracy in our government, it is also embedded into the people’s everyday lives. The people rely on bureaucracy every day, when you deposit financial aid check sent to you by the Department of Education, the use of medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration, or even driving to school in a car that meet safety demands by the Department of…
In simple terms, a bureaucracy is made up of experts in their field. So they exist because complex tasks are separated to make the government run efficiently and accomplish tasks easier. In a democracy, a government bureaucrat refers to anyone working for the government who is not elected.…
Little did I know that in my first year of college I was able to understand the nature and functionality of a bureaucracy. The definition of a bureaucracy is, “a type of formal organization, most often a governmental organization made up of non elected members, the constituent parts of which are integrated to accomplish a specific goal, task, or production outcome in the most efficient manner”(Larkin). There is a set of characteristics that makes a certain type of an organization, a bureaucracy. I was apart of the national sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Kappa possesses many characteristics of a bureaucracy; clear hierarchical rankings of authority with the work assignments flowing downward, a division of labor, written rules, written communication…
Despite the fact that the federal bureaucracy was never explicitly laid out in the constitution, was never instituted and planned, and was evolved by the gradual accretion of agencies and tasks over time, the federal bureaucracy proves to be one of the most influential and powerful departments in American government. The original bureaucracy of the federal government began as a small group of people from three departments: the State, Treasury and War departments. This group of people formed together under George Washington’s presidency to form the first bureaucracy, appointed by Washington to advise him as president according to Article 2, Section 3 of the constitution. This small group of white male elites quickly grew to an astounding three…
The Federal Bureaucracy hires thousands of employees to complete specific goals. Those employed attempt to achieve these goals proficiently, however their goals and procedures are part of a continual struggle for power; which inevitably leads to ineffective behavior known as red tape (Pearson Education). Many have attempted to change the way the federal bureaucracy does business in order to help improve the services provided to the public.…
“Bureaucracy is a way of a administratively organizing large numbers of people who need to work together.” (handout) Bureaucracies are not as wasteful as you think . They help ensure that thousands of people work together in compatible ways. This helps define people's role with hierarchy. The king was the supreme head of state.…
A bureaucracy is any goal-oriented organization created to tackle specific goals and problems in order for a society to function as efficiently as it realistically can. Bureaucracies are typically closely associated with the government, as most of the well known ones are branches of the government created to specialize in different areas. Bureaucracies can, however, be other organizations with a defined hierarchical structure with little to no relation with the government. One specific bureaucracy that immediately comes to mind is the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or the FBI. The FBI is a bureaucracy that was created to protect the United States from homeland and foreign terrorists that may cause any damage within the United States and any…
By having all these different levels of authority there is a division of labor. Each authority has to divide the labor to make sure that it all is done smoothly and right. The president gives tasks to the vice presidents, the vice presidents give tasks to him subsidiaries, and then the process continues until the work is being done like it is planned. A bureaucracy is a system that works together and thrives off of each other.…
What is a bureaucracy? It is defined as an administrative policy-making group. The United States government fits that description to a T, but the argument whether or not that this is a good thing. Is the government getting too large that it is hurting individual rights and liberties, or is it providing opportunities for others to pursue them? In the journal article, “Is the Bureaucracy a Threat to Liberty”, we see opposing viewpoints from Ellsworth Barnard and Jacob Hornberger about if big government imposes on individual liberties. In order for all of the citizens of the USA to have equal opportunities towards safe and productive liberties, we have to have a large and strong federal government. While Hornberger makes a compelling testimony,…