Look up: Bureaucracy

1. Bureaucracy
   An organization of a hierarchical sort, which takes the form of a pyramid of authority. The term ‘bureaucracy` was popularized by Max Weber. According to Weber, bureaucracy is the most efficient type of large-scale human organization. As organizations grow in size, Weber argued, they inevitably tend to become more and more bureaucratized.
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2. bureaucracy
   [n] - nonelective government officials
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3. bureaucracy
   a form of social organization which manifests a high degree of division of labour and specialization, formal rules, hierarchical structure of authority, and impersonal relationships between organizational members and clients.
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4. Bureaucracy
   an organisational model rationally designed to perform complex tasks efficiently
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5. Bureaucracy
   A style of organisation based upon legal-rational authority capable of producing a high degree of efficiency, characterised by a belief in rules and order and managed by distinct official roles. See Role Culture.
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6. bureaucracy
   excessive multiplication of, and concentration of power in, administration bureaus or administrators. Category: Economics
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7. Bureaucracy
   Bu·reau'cra·cy noun [ Bureau + Greek ... to be strong, to govern, ... strength: confer French bureaucratie .] 1. A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chi...
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8. bureaucracy
   bureaucratism noun nonelective government officials
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9. bureaucracy
   A form of organization in which officeholders have defined positions and (usually) titles. Formal rules specify the duties of the officeholders. Personalistic distinctions are usually discouraged by the rules.
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10. Bureaucracy
    • (n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system. • (n...
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11. bureaucracy
    specific form of organization defined by complexity, division of labour, permanence, professional management, hierarchical coordination and control, ... [27 related articles]
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12. bureaucracy
    bureaucracy 1. Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials. 2. Departments and their officials as a group. 3. Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures. 4. The administrati...
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13. bureaucracy
    A type of administration characterized by specialization, professionalism, and security of tenure.
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14. bureaucracy
    bureaucracy (byoorok'rusē) , the administrative structure of any large organization, public or private. Ideally bureaucracy is characterized by hierarchical authority relations, defined spheres of competence subject to impersonal rules, recruitment by competence, and fixed salaries. Its go...
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15. bureaucracy
    Organization whose structure and operations are governed to a high degree by written rules and a hierarchy of offices; in its broadest sense, all forms of administration, and in its narrowest, rule by officials. The early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and India were organized hierarchically, thus forming the bureaucratic tradition...
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16. bureaucracy
    officials using fixed fules and a hierarchy of authority characterized by red tape, delay or inaction
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17. Bureaucracy
    (video game) `Bureaucracy` is an interactive fiction computer game released by Infocom in 1987, scripted by popular comic science fiction author Douglas Adams. It is Infocom`s twenty-fourth game. Setting: The player is challenged to confront a long and complicated series of bureaucrati...
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18. Bureaucracy
    (book) `Bureaucracy` is a political book written by Austrian School economist and libertarian thinker Ludwig von Mises. The author`s stated motivation in writing the book is his concern with the spread of socialist ideals and the increasing bureaucratization of economic life. While he ...
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19. Bureaucracy
    The purpose of a `bureaucracy` is to successfully implement the actions of an organization of any size (but often associated with large entities such as government, corporations, and non-governmental organizations), in achieving its purpose and mission, and the bureaucracy is tasked to determine how...
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