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Question 2: What is bureaucracy – what are the advantages and…
Question 2: What is bureaucracy – what are the advantages and disadvantages of
bureaucratic government in the context of your country?
In government organization or bodies, bureaucracy is essential in implementing rules and regulations. A bureaucratic structure is intended to manage large-scale, systematic coordination among many individuals operating at various levels to achieve a shared goal.
Advantages
Efficiency
: Competency increases; work is efficiently performed under the supervision of immediate managers in the hierarchy.
Rules and regulations
In most circumstances, the collection of clearly defined rules and regulations makes compliance a a requirement in the bureaucratic system, restricting the scope of non-compliance with the rules and procedures.
Ease of administration
Bureaucratic government makes administration more easier. This is because the organization is more rationally arranged in a structural hierarchy.
In a bureaucratic structure, maintaining control of the management, making necessary adjustments as and when required, and the introduction of a new set of rules, as per requirements from time to time are more easier especially the large the organization as
Disadvantages
Decision-making
In this context, decision-making in bureaucracy is consider as disadvantage because the decision need to be based on a certain set of rules and regulations.
This often result to opting for programmed decisions( decision that already been plan before) while newer approachess are not explored.
Corruption
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For example, higher officer that involves in corruption will take advantage on the organization fund/ money and misuse their authority by bribing those under staff to keep quiet on the issue.
Compartmentalization
As the jobs are divided across categories, it restricts the opportunities for collaboration and people performing tasks in other categories.
For example, staff that works under financial department/unit of the organization will only works under that department.
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