The Values of Bureaucracy

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-927546-5 (ISBN)

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Bureaucracy is often used as short-hand for the dysfunctions of organizations. Its reform or abolition is continually demanded or promised. This book highlights the positive attributes of bureaucracy and shows why bureaucratic organization should be valued, both by those engaged in business and commerce, and those responsible for running states and delivering public services.

The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science, as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our political, social, economic, and cultural existence.

The book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures, and seeks to highlight some of the costs of attempts to de-bureaucratize organizational life in business, government, and the third sector. Overall the volume highlights the values of bureaucracy and at the same time indicates why distinctively bureaucratic forms of organization should continue to be valued.

Paul du Gay is Professor of Sociology and Organization Studies, and Co-Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. His research is located in the sociology of organizational life and cultural studies. His recent publications include, In Praise of Bureaucracy (Sage, 2000) and Cultural Economy (ed. with M. Pryke, 2002). Culture, Person and Organization: Essays in Cultural Economy will be published by Sage in 2005.

SECTION 1: THE POLITICS OF BUREAUCRACY ; 1. The Bureau as Unit of Governance ; 2. Bureaucracy and Liberty: State, Authority, and Freedom ; 3. Bureaucracy and the Controversy Between Liberal Interventionism and Non-Interventionism ; SECTION 2: THE END OF BUREAUCRACY? ; 4. Bureaucracy at Work: Misunderstandings and Mixed Blessings ; 5. Beyond the Iron Cage? Bureaucracy and Democracy in the Knowledge Economy and Society ; 6. Bureaucracy and Beyond: Managers and Leaders in the 'Post-Bureaucratic' Organization ; SECTION 3: BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT ; 7. A Service to the Public: The Containment of Ethical and Moral Conflicts by Public Bureaucracies ; 8. Bending Bureaucracy: Leadership and Multi-Level Governance ; 9. Performing for the Public: Doubt, Desire, and the Evaluation of Public Services ; 10. What is Best 'Value'? Bureaurcarcy, Virtualism, and Local Governance ; SECTION 4: BUREAUCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY ; 11. Gender Equality: A Bureaucratic Enterprise? ; 12. Bureaucracy, Open Access, and Social Pluralism: Returning the Common to the Goose ; 13. The Popularity of Bureaucracy: Involvement in Voluntary Associations

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.3.2005
Zusatzinfo	3 tables; 2 figures
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	545 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	0-19-927546-7 / 0199275467
ISBN-13	978-0-19-927546-5 / 9780199275465
Zustand	Neuware