Lecture Eleven: Organizations II

Bureaucracy

Rationality

Ideal Bureaucracy

Specialization

Hierarchy of Offices

Rules and Regulations

Technical Competence

Impersonality

Formal, Written Communications

Comparing Bureaucracy to Small Groups

Informal Behavior in Bureaucracies

Limitations of Bureaucracy

Waste and Incompetence

Ritualism

Inertia

Oligarchy