Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, on Feb. 2009
According to Sociology, the bureaucracy is an organizational structure applicable to any type of organization that is characterized by the division of responsibilities, specialization of work, hierarchy, impersonal relationships and procedures regularized that occur within it. The most recurrent examples of bureaucracies, due to the daily life that they present to our lives, are: churches, companies, courts, hospitals and schools.
As a consequence of the bad examples of only a few, who do not feel like working towards the efficiency of the bureaucratic organization that they integrate and that unfortunately are the most persistent in our minds, it seems a lie but human beings always tend to remember the worst over the good, is that in most of the planet, people have given the word bureaucracy and also those who work in it, a connotation absolutely negative and pejorative.
When one is called bureaucracy, immediately, Think of those state agencies or offices one commonly attends for the realization of procedures and in which inefficiency, negligence, the deficient attention of its employees are the order of the day. Employees who do not know or do not want to answer the questions of citizens, employees who are meeting doing anything but work, the time in hours it takes for the materialization of the procedure that was to be carried out, employees that although inefficient are not fired, countless hands, floors and faces through which they have to go to finally achieve the much-cherished answer to the problem, these are some of the most characteristic postcards that will come to mind when they think of the bureaucracy.
But in recent years, the bureaucracy not only represents what I told them in the paragraph above, although it is the most representative, but also the bureaucracy has moved to large corporations or capitalist companies, such as consequence of the incredible development and specialization of the work they host, surpassing in some parts of the world the bureaucracies of the condition.
Corporate bureaucracy is called this brand new version of the bureaucracy and which integrates the highest-ranking employees of the private sector who hold a monopoly on certain knowledge and public relations.
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