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- Title
Building better bureaucracies.
- Authors
Adler, Paul S.
- Abstract
Colloquially speaking, bureaucracy means red tape, over-controlling bosses, and apathetic employees. But large-scale organizations need appropriately designed formalized procedures and hierarchical structure to avoid chaos and assure efficiency, quality, and timeliness. We currently lack theoretical or practical guidelines for building better bureaucracies that can support high levels of both performance and employee involvement. This article combines insights from organization theory and cognitive psychology research on technology to propose a set of organization design guidelines.
- Subjects
BUREAUCRACY; BUSINESS enterprises; RED tape; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; EMPLOYEE participation in management; MANAGEMENT styles; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology research; EMPLOYEE motivation; OFFICE management; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior research
- Publication
Academy of Management Executive, 1999, Vol 13, Issue 4, p36
- ISSN
1079-5545
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/AME.1999.2570553