Max Weber wrote about bureaucracy as the cure for the system of familial patronage in nobility-ridden Europe. In the bureaucracy, positions are filled by qualification rather than by parentage.
What he missed was reified policy is rarely ever cleared out when new ones are put in -- most large organizations eventually become plagued by redundant and overlapping policies and positions, all of which have interested stakeholders who are vested in not seeing it change.
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Date: 17/11/10 01:43 (UTC)What he missed was reified policy is rarely ever cleared out when new ones are put in -- most large organizations eventually become plagued by redundant and overlapping policies and positions, all of which have interested stakeholders who are vested in not seeing it change.