Employment and Bureaucracy

Employment and Bureaucracy

Introduction

Nearly everyone experiences bureaucracy at work, at school. These experiences include filling out forms, standing in line, going up the chain of command, climbing the corporate ladder, and getting the runaround.

Discussion

I was faced with a situation, where I was expected to do repetitive tasks daily and that monotonous or one can say habitual work, created a sense of rigidity within myself. This was a kind of machine bureaucracy, where I was intentionally forced to remain stagnant at one place thus denying any kind of benefits or promotion.

The machine bureaucracy is characterized by the routinization of work, ...