Advantages Of Post Bureaucracy

Please see Dan’s email below regarding Veteran client Ken Hjerpe. He originally emailed his “15 page opus” to all Craig (DOL), all R14 DVOPS and to VA. The email was forwarded to me by Ester, Tarpon office manager, back in April because he was sending this opus several contacts.

What is a bureaucracy? Tolbert and Hall (2009) describe in the text, a large formal organization with the characteristics of having, a division of labor, a hierarchy of authority, a set of written rules, resources that are clearly separated from home and the organization, and group of members who are appointed according to qualifications (P. 22). These were the key elements Max Weber, a German scholar described for an ideal type of bureaucracy.

The bureaucratic era has been the traditional form of organization for more than a century, in simple terms described as hybridity, standardized operations and none flexibility inside the organization. The change to the post-bureaucratic is shown through personal influence, high trust relationships and the importance of the individuality of everyone (McKenna, Garcia-Lorenzo & Bridgeman, 2010). According to Kernaghan (2000) the characteristic of the bureaucratic era is “position power” and of the post bureaucratic “participate leadership”.

Also, there are many challenges for healing hospitals in five characteristics such as, technology and prescription drugs, business factors, bureaucracy, cynicism, and failed leadership. According to Chapman, it is clear that the importance of loving care has decreased as technology enhancement and scientific learning increased (2007). If we consider business factors, it is true that the way we spent money is what we see as valuable for us. By utilizing this many of the old charitable hospitals became high revenue corporations in these days. Therefore, business factors are crucial. Another challenging factor of the healing hospital is bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is very obvious while evaluating what

They decide together what needs to be done and how to get it done. The leader clearly defines the expectations and mission offering guidance along the way and is the final decision maker. With this type of management, everyone is vested in the best outcome because they are all involved with the process. Team members are appreciated because they are rewarded for their hard work and efforts immediately amongst their peers. Facility B focused on doing things the correct way every day in order to prepare for any inspection and uphold all standards at all times to protect and serve their residents. Unlike facility A which felt it was unnecessary to honor required standards regularly unless it is time for a survey. With facility A’s autocratic leadership style, employees are directed with fear and intimidation. There is no sense of self-value due to the lack of ability to exemplify talents and pride in their duties for fear of retaliation. The only reward was given for informant behaviors and following the directions of the manager only. The shiftiness of facility A was exposed by sabotage due to lack of camaraderie and loyalty to such a militant leader.

The term bureaucracy was coined by a well-known sociologist named Max Weber in 1947. He used this term to describe corporations that held five main characteristics. These characteristics include, hierarchical authority structure, a division of labor, written rules, written communications and records, and impersonality and replaceability. In the modern day world, it is easy to see several bureaucracies in place, however, one bureaucracy that is personally close to all Grand Canyon University students is the institution of Grand Canyon University (GCU). This is a great example of a bureaucracy due to the fact that it embraces all five characteristics of a bureaucracy.

Power can drive people to do crazy, messed-up things; that’s what happens in the famous play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Macbeth starts off as a respected soldier fighting for the King of Scotland. Three sketchy witches promptly tell him that he will become the next ruler. Macbeth’s wife, Lady Macbeth, is the most power-hungry, manipulative lady ever. As soon as she catches wind of the prophecy.

Max Weber was a German sociologist who first described the concept of bureaucracy, an ideal form of organizational structure. He defines bureaucratic administration as the exercise of control on the

Weber states that organizations regulations are formed by few people and this people are the boss, administration employee who tends to have representation powers (Roth and Wittich, 1968). Weber states that the state tends to use bureaucracy on its people in order to establish authority. Bureaucracy is present in various areas in the environment and once bureaucracy is produced then it becomes difficult to

From Schrock, Schwalbe, Pyke and Johnson, we know that there are two subsections in both masculinity and femininity: hegemonic, and subordinate. The hegemony in both gender identities is typically associated with the white, middle class individuals, while the subordination is associated with anything other: the people of color, the economically marginalized, and the non-heterosexuals. Because it is hard to fit into the hegemonic masculinity/femininity, those of people who do not have membership to the hegemony makes “adjustments”; through these adjustments, the definitions of specific subordinated masculinity and femininity are re-inscribed. (Schrock and Schwalbe, 2008)

Some have seriously misinterpreted Weber and have claimed that he liked bureaucracy, that he believed that bureaucracy was an "ideal" organization. Others have pronounced Weber "wrong" because bureaucracies do not live up to his list of "ideals". Others have even claimed that Weber "invented" bureaucratic organization. But Weber described bureaucracy as an “ideal type” in order to more accurately describes their growth in power and scope in the modern world. His studies of bureaucracy still form the core of organizational sociology.

Max Weber concluded that the formation of a government bureaucracy is critical to its success in administrating public goods and the interests of the government. The disadvantages and advantages are numerous on both sides of bureaucratic theory. One of the major cons of bureaucracy is the system of patronage. The patronage system is basically where the president appoints individuals to certain positions as Public Administrators as a reward for their service to them. This system of bureaucracy also supports the spoils system which runs along the lines of political parties. In this system all Public Administrators are fired by the new political party in office to ensure their ideals and agenda are promoted.

While he highlights a lot of positives, he also saw a lot of issues within bureaucracy. Webers’ bureaucracy is a bottom line model that values calculable decision making over all else. Within this model are the people, or parts, that can be replaced if they cause a decrease in productivity. The issue becomes that the rationalized view of bureaucratic systems is unable to see individuals and respond to individual needs. There is a format and if someone does not fit in, or if they begin to fall behind, there is no understanding or support. His argument is that the bureaucratization of our world has made it depersonalized.

Based on this right, the bureaucracy designed by Weber has clear division of labor; thoroughly indicated hierarchical relationship and pointed out impersonal relationship (Crozier, 1964). In the course of history, there have been various more perfect organizational systems, therefore, bureaucratic theory was questioned and criticized by many scholar. However, there are still certain organizations that use bureaucracy theory to design the corporate structure despite many critical views.

Bureaucracy is ahierarchical organization which follows strict rules and regulations in achieving desired goals and which has tendency to gain supremacy over other organizations. Famous German sociologist theorized ideal- type of bureaucracy. Max Weber thought bureaucracy is the highest efficient organization which falls under legal rational authority. Soon after the theory came out, like other theory, ideal-type bureaucracy theory encountered severe criticisms.Alvin Gouldner, Robert Merton, Phillip Selznick, Peter Blau are some of them who criticized the ideal-type of bureaucracy.