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    Cons of Bureaucracy

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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 and Organization

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    JOKO1102 Introduction to Management and Organization Bureaucracy Fabrizio Bertoglio fbertogl@ulapland.fi (Numbers of words 6952) Introduction As Etzioni puts it “we are born in organisations‚ educated by organizations‚ and most of us spend much of our lives working for organisations”. This simple sentence let us understand the importance of bureaucracy in our daily life and the reason that push me to study them. I’ve been interested in it and decided to more deeply study the characteristic

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    Congress

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    Congress (House of Reps & Senate) 535 members in congress 435 Reps & 100 Sen. Article 1 Legislative branch makes law A Bicameral Congress Historical British Parliament consisted of two houses Practical Created to settle differences in NJ (Senate)&VA (House of Reps) Plans Terms Each term of Congress last for two years First term of Congress March 4th‚ 1789 Start date for Congress changed with 20th Amendment Session A period of time during which‚ every year‚ Congress assembles and conducts business

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    The Ideal Bureaucracy

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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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    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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    Adhocracy and Bureaucracy

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    Numéro 2001/14 Bureaucracy vs. Adhocracy: a case of overdramatisation? Fabienne AUTIER Professeur Unité Pédagogique et de Recherche Hommes et Stratégies Equipe Management des Ressources Humaines E.M.LYON Juillet 2001 Communication effectuée au 17ième Colloque EGOS “The Odyssey of Organizing”‚ thème “European Group for Organizational Studies”‚ 5-7 Juillet 2001‚ Lyon‚ France Bureaucracy vs. Adhocracy: a case of overdramatisation? Abstract : It has been argued that bureaucratic management

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    Bureaucracy in Zambia

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    1. INTRODUCTION Administrative discretion can be defined as the exercise of professional expertise and judgment‚ as opposed to strict adherence to regulations or statutes‚ in making a decision or performing 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

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    Bureaucracies Of The FBI

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    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

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    Congress

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    election and inauguration. In the 1800 the federalists were out the door in the lamb duck period‚ they went out quietly but they were scared to death of Jefferson. They were afraid he had violent ideas some were afraid they were going to be beheaded. Congress created new courts and then appointed some federalists as judges to those courts‚ most of these judges were appointed while John Adams was still in office. On march 5th 1801 when Thomas Jefferson and his secretary changed Madison showed up for work

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    the ’ideal bureaucracy’ consisted of a system that was efficient‚ worked fast but yet remained precise‚ wasn’t ambiguous‚ had knowledge of the files it held‚ continually discreet‚ has strict subordination‚ reduction of friction whilst maintaining the lowest possible material and production costs. While Weber’s statement is itself ambitious (and highly unlikely that a bureaucracy containing all those characteristics could exist in either the US or UK political systems) if a bureaucracy did exist with

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