Hierarchy seems to spawn bureaucracy. Leaders at the top tend to lose touch with the realities of the work and the needs of users or customers. Decision-making slows down, and teams get stuck in a ...

The bureaucratic organization is characterized by hierarchical structures with formal lines of authority, division of labor, task specialization and routinization, rewards tied to narrowly defined ...

Bureaucracy wasn't designed to foster progress — it was built to maintain control. During the Industrial Revolution, it provided organizations with the structure and predictability needed to ...

This paper argues that the thin line between efficient management practices and inefficient bureaucracy is crossed to curb managerial agency costs in a multi-layer hierarchy. The model predicts that ...

"The Virtual Organization: Bureaucracy, Technology, and the Implosion of Control." In The Post-Bureaucratic Organization: New Perspectives on Organizational Change, edited by Anne Donnellon and ...

The decades of political degeneration have resulted in the deep-going alienation of the bureaucracy from the working class. The AFL-CIO is not, in any serious sense, an organization of the working ...

The Feminists have been mostly focused on balancing the gender numbers, getting women to important positions in the political and bureaucratic hierarchy. There has been some success. For example, the ...