 The Bureaucratic OrganisationBörnfelt P-O () Chapter Chapter 3 in Work Organisation in Practice, 2023, pp 39-48 from Springer Abstract: Abstract There is low division of work in public bureaucratic organisations for the higher civil servants. There are however often also low-skilled jobs in bureaucracy like organisations which have a higher division of work. The work in bureaucracies is coordinated by a system of rules which also is the foundation for the principle of equal treatment. Work is also coordinated by standardised skills through a common education (E g. legal studies), formal assignments, command and control by supervisors. There is a strong hierarchy where supervisors control their subordinates and workers report to their supervisor. The bureaucratic organisation can be efficient in a stable environment but has difficulties to adapt to a more changing environment due to its static structure. There are other set-backs such as suboptimization, lack of holistic understanding, dependence of rules and structures and few opportunities for workers to take initiative, learn and develop. There might also be some health-related problems. As work is very prescribed, there is no room for workers to influence their work tasks. Thus control/decision authority is low which is related to a risk to develop stress related health problems such as depression and cardiac deceases. Date: 2023 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-21667-1_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21667-1_3 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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