bureaucracies Flashcards
1
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iron cage
A
a prison of rules and regulations from which there is little escape
2
Q
problems bureaucracies have
A
waste and incompetence, train incapacity, goal displacement, iron law of oligarchy
3
Q
waste and incompetence
A
you lose your skills and you become indifferent (just like everyone else)
4
Q
train incapacity
A
learn inability for independent thought (cannot think like an individual)
5
Q
goal displacement
A
lose sight of the goals that were created to be accomplished
6
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iron law of oligarchy
A
inevitable tendency for a large scale bureaucratic organization to become rules undemocratically by a handful of people
(everyone at the top is running the organization and only very few actually have power)
