Bureaucratic management theory

The study of how to create an organizational structure (bureaucracy) that leads to high efficiency and effectiveness

Bureaucratic management theory

what are the features of bureaucratic structure

1. division of labor

2. hierarchy of authority

3. framework of rules

4. impersonality

5. formal selection

complex work broken down into simple jobs

division of labor

accepted chain of command to direct individual’s effort towards organization goal accomplishment

hierarchy of authority

effort directed and coordinated by rules

framework of rules

hiring and promoting people on the basis of objective merit rather than favoritism (on the basis of what they know, ad not who they know)

impersonality

technical competence members selected accordingly on the basis of training, qualification, education etc.

formal selection