BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATIONS

Bureaucratic Organizations

Bureaucratic Organizations

Introduction

This essay is based on how people respond to bureaucratic forms of organizing and the role of alienation, resistance and impression management in business organizations. Organizational Structure refers to a system which consists of various activities that lead to the achievement of the aims and objectives of the organization. The impact of bureaucratic demands on people causes a profound limitation on their freedom and staff. This also grows inability among the employees to understand the meaning of their own tasks and activities within the organization. Bureaucratic management means exercising control based on knowledge (expertise), a feature that is what makes it specifically rational (Spicer, 1985).

There are various organizations that follow the bureaucratic organizations structure such as Wal-Mart, Marks & Spencer, Microsoft, Coca Cola etc. Bureaucratic organizational structures have many levels of management, descending from senior executives to regional managers and department heads, all the way down to shift supervisors working alongside frontline employees. Due to the many levels of management, the authority in making decisions must pass through a greater number of levels in flatter organizations. Reimbursement decisions may have to move from frontline employees through shift supervisors, even the store managers for retail in a bureaucratic.

Discussion and Analysis

In the study of modern organizations, the concept of bureaucracy was used by Max Weber to characterize the type of domination that is exercised by the official office. In any bureaucratic organization, the necessary measures to achieve the goal is decomposed into sub-tasks, which in turn implies the division of tasks and responsibilities of each organization involved based on the principle of hierarchy, which means that all minor officials are subject to the supervision and control of the superior. The culture of an organization is created through a system of rules and standards that outlines the duties and responsibilities. Employment ...