Examples of bureaucracy in the following topics:
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- The best way to avoid or resolve problems in this third category is to understand how bureaucracies operate.
- Max Weber, the first great writer to discuss bureaucracies, identified five features of classical bureaucracy and described unintended dysfunctions of each.
- Classical bureaucracy requires employees to treat everyone "without hatred or passion" and to make decisions on the basis of reason rather than feelings.
- Dysfunctions: The primary problem with career orientation in bureaucracy is that seniority and achievement don't always coincide.
- In the next section I'll offer suggestions for overcoming the problems I've listed here and present hints on getting what you want for your business when you have to deal with bureaucracies.
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- In the last section I introduced five major features of bureaucracies and explained the dysfunctions of each which were originally identified by Max Weber.
- Now I'll share some ways to overcome problems that a bureaucracy might create for your business.
- All bureaucracies share two characteristics.
- Thus, it's wise for business people who deal with bureaucracies to follow these principles:
- Unfortunately, the first person you approach in a bureaucracy may attempt to keep you from finding out who can help you.
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- Other people decide to become entrepreneurs because they are disillusioned by the bureaucracy or politics involved in getting ahead in an established business or profession.
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- They are able to innovate and create new products and services more rapidly and creatively than larger companies that are mired in bureaucracy.
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- He needed to use words in ways which could solve problems and work through complex tasks in large bureaucracies, sometimes by himself but often as the person in charge of a group.