The Values of Bureaucracy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 March 2005
- ISBN 9780199275465
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 234x156x19 mm
- Weight 545 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 tables; 2 figures 0
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Short description:
Bureaucracy is often used as short-hand for the dysfunctions of organizations. Its reform or abolition is continually demanded or promised. This book highlights the positive attributes of bureaucracy and shows why bureaucratic organization should be valued, both by those engaged in business and commerce, and those responsible for running states and delivering public services.
MoreLong description:
The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science, as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our political, social, economic, and cultural existence.
The book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures, and seeks to highlight some of the costs of attempts to de-bureaucratize organizational life in business, government, and the third sector. Overall the volume highlights the values of bureaucracy and at the same time indicates why distinctively bureaucratic forms of organization should continue to be valued.
Table of Contents:
Section 1: The Politics of Bureaucracy
The Bureau as Unit of Governance
Bureaucracy and Liberty: State, Authority, and Freedom
Bureaucracy and the Controversy Between Liberal Interventionism and Non-Interventionism
Section 2: The End of Bureaucracy?
Bureaucracy at Work: Misunderstandings and Mixed Blessings
Beyond the Iron Cage? Bureaucracy and Democracy in the Knowledge Economy and Society
Bureaucracy and Beyond: Managers and Leaders in the 'Post-Bureaucratic' Organization
Section 3: Bureaucracy and Public Management
A Service to the Public: The Containment of Ethical and Moral Conflicts by Public Bureaucracies
Bending Bureaucracy: Leadership and Multi-Level Governance
Performing for the Public: Doubt, Desire, and the Evaluation of Public Services
What is Best 'Value'? Bureaurcarcy, Virtualism, and Local Governance
Section 4: Bureaucracy and Civil Society
Gender Equality: A Bureaucratic Enterprise?
Bureaucracy, Open Access, and Social Pluralism: Returning the Common to the Goose
The Popularity of Bureaucracy: Involvement in Voluntary Associations
