Dysfunctional Bureaucracy

Download or read book Dysfunctional Bureaucracy written by Bogdan Mieczkowski and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1991 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines 'dysborgs' (dysfunctional bureaucratic organizations) through the establishment of a theory of the dysborg and some of its theoretical antecedents, the study of conditions under which dysborgian elements recede in favor of functional bureaucracy, the reformulation of a theory of bureaucracy in academia, a study of the politics of bureaucracy in command economies, and an inquiry into the existence of convergence and divergence in the operation of the institution of bureaucracy in the East and West. Contents: The Theory of Dysfunctional Bureaucratic Organizations; Ibn Khaldun's Fourteenth-Century Views on Bureaucracy; The Bureaucratic East-West Synthesis; Bureaucracy, Politics, and Economics in Command Economies; The Bureaucratic Syndrome in Academia; An Analysis of the Uniqueness of the Japanese Public and Private Bureaucracy.