The values of bureaucracy

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 form...

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Main Author: Du Gay, Paul
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2005
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Oxford Univ. Press
Edition:1
Subjects:
Bureaucracy
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Bürokratie
Civil service & public sector
Complex organizations
Economics of industrial organisation
History & Theory
Industrial Management
Industrial Organization
Industries
Organisatorischer Wandel
Organizational change
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Political science & theory
Political Theory
Public Economics
Values
ISBN:0199275467, 9780199275465, 9780199275458, 0199275459
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Summary: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. This book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programs of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures, and seeks to highlight some of the costs of attempts to de­bureaucratize 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.
Bibliography:Summary: "This book describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures. It aims to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have a vital role in ordering our political, social, economic, and cultural existence"--Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Available also in a print ed.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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ISBN:0199275467
9780199275465
9780199275458
0199275459
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780199275458.001.0001