bureaucratic organizations Flashcards
Small organizations pros
- greater sense of community, less hierarchical
- easy and efficient communication
- see the out come of your labor
- less specialized, variety of tasks
- easier to move up
- small probation
- less isolating
Small organizations cons
- less job security, more easily to go bankrupt
- work harder more observable, less anonymity
- Less likely to have benefits
- lower pay
- labor laws and ethics
- less diversity
Large organizations pros
- higher wage, pension
- unions, benefits, control the hours, certain things you can and cannot do
- more opportunity to grow, upgrading their skills
- higher quality, more capital and investments
Large organizations cons
- loss your now opinion, herd or pack mentality, go with the flow
- chain of command
- less room for creativity, rule bound
- anonymity, get away with things like poor performance high absentee that are less observable
- repetitive
Weber’s bureaucratic social values: rationality
use logic and empiricism to explain the causes of events; effective and efficient pursuit of goals without regard to means
-replacing family based organizations or ones that were organized around charismatic leaders
Weber’s bureaucratic social values: impersonality
the equal treatment of all
Weber’s bureaucratic social values: meritocracy
the emphasis on merit and expertise in the assignment of job positions and work tasks
- based on performance
- impersonal
- promoted for what you know, and you’re skills
bureaucratic structure
- impersonality
- meritocracy
- division of labor
- specialization of tasks
- formal rules, regulations, and procedure
- hierarchies of authority
- extensive use of written records
bureaucratic structure: impersonality
-employee or client or customer
-idea that we are treated as a number
often complain about it, don’t feel like a person
-weber: this is rational and logical because it is moving away from favouritism and bias
-ensures that we are all treated fairly
Cons
- no flexibility
- everyone has a situation that is different and they need consideration
bureaucratic structure: meritocracy
how people are hired, promoted in bureaucracies
- based on skill (merit
- tired to impersonality, don’t want to be promoting people based on their ind characteristics, instead we’ve assessed their skills
bureaucratic structure: division of labor
- Complex because they are highly specialized
- Limited to what they job description is
- very narrow
Advantages: usually are hiring people who are trained and skilled in their job
Disadvantages - may not share the same goals as their co-workers, and there can be conflict
bureaucratic structure: rules and regulations
expected to follow
can be helped b/c we know what we are supposed to be doing
bureaucratic structure: hierarchies of authorities
- Know where we fit
- who reports to who
- helps us understand the span of control people have which is linked to their authority
bureaucratic structure: extensive use of written record
- formalization
- everything is recorded
- allows bureaucracies to function on the own
- transparent
- bureaucratic (people forgetting the bigger picture)
- Loose flexibility, can be different
When does bureaucracy work?
Ex: university
- application
- degree requirements
- scheduling
- course outlines
