Bureaucracy Flashcards
Who is the proponent of Bureaucracy?
Max Weber
What are the 6 characteristics of Bureaucracy?
- Specialization of Labor
- Well define Authority
- Formal Rules of Procedures
- Impersonality: Wapakels sa emotion ni employee–DAPAT SIPAG LANG AHHAHA (productive)
5 . Employment decision based on Merit: based on performance - Emphasis on Written records: Kapag hindi napirm,ahan ng mga taong need pumirma sa papers mo hindi ito ma-a-apporve at hinid ito lalakad.
What are the 4 Major Structural Principles of Bureaucracy?
Functional Principle
Scalar Principle
Line and Staff Principle of Authority
Span of Control
A structural Principle of Bureaucracy where the organization should be divided into units that perform similar functions
Functional Principle
A structural Principle that relates to horizontal growth
Functional Principle
A structural Principle that dividing up tasks allows the organization to take advantage of individuals’
particular strengths, avoiding the problems that result from asking people to
perform tasks requiring skills they don’t possess—
Functional Principle
What is the Disadvantage of Functional Principle?
it is good that each employee has their particular task to do, but it can be
difficult to coordinate the many tasks done by all employees while ensuring the
particular outcome for the organization
A structural Principle of Bureaucracy where at every level of the organization, employees report to a person one level up in the chain of command
Scalar Principle
Scalar Principle is best way to overcome organizational ________ caused by division of labor
fragmentation
What is the top down pyramidal organization?
at every level employees are to report to a person one level up in the middle chain of command
It deals with organizational vertical growth
Scalar Principle
Higher level is equal to_____
more responsibility
in ______each subordinate should be accountable to only one superior
unity of command
in __________ information within a bureaucratic organization flows in one direction typically from the top of the organization to lower levels
unity of direction
t: it increases the predictability and stability of information flow
unity of direction
approach whereby supervisors, rather than trying to do everything themselves, assign particular tasks to separate employees and hold them
responsible for task completion
delegation of authority
managers who are incapable of delegating
and they try to take charge of everything that goes on in the organization rather than holding employees responsible for individual tasks
micro-managers
primary responsibility for meeting the major goals of the organization
Line Functions
support the line’s activities but are regarded as subsidiary in overall importance to line functions
Staff Functions
number of subordinates who report to a given supervisor
span of control
too large _____ makes supervisors to be unable to manage so many subordinates
It produce flat organizations and few levels between the top and bottom of the organizations
span of control
What is the solution for having flat structures of organization??
have middle-level managers to supervise certain number of
subordinates within their capabilities
What will happen if there is an overabundance of supervisors managing too few employees
It produce tall organizations
and many levels
An Issue Important to Weberian Bureaucracy in which pertains to the training of employees toward the “one best way” to get a job done
Task Standardization
