Privatization, corporatization, bureaucracies, and change

Title: Privatization, corporatization, bureaucracies, and change
Creator: Bilney, Chris; Pillay, Soma
Date: 2015
Type: Text; Book chapter
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/99215
Identifier: vital:10331
Identifier: ISBN:978-1-137-45080-7
Abstract: Public sector organizations have existed for thousands of years and have long been equated with bureaucracy. Andreski (1984, p.104) cites the Chinese and Roman empires as classic examples of bureaucracy, describing them as "administrative machines," while Gaebler (1996) states that bureaucratic structure originated with the Roman army around 2,500 years ago. This gave rise to the concept of a bureaucracy based on traditional military ideals and "good administration" (Hood 1991) and paved the way for the modernist concept of the bureaucracy. Traditional organizations depended on bureaucratic structures to ensure that work was completed efficiently by removing error and idosyncrasy and reinforcing conformity and obedience. Bureau-cratic, or mechanized, structures rely upon centralized decision-making, formalized rules, and highly specialized tasks (Taylor 1911, 1913 and Weber 1947, cited in Sadler 1999)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Relation: Public sector organizations and cultural change p. 15-58
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Organizations; Cultural change
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