Assignment

1. MENAL HASAN
Bureaucracy
A formal organization with a hierarchy of authority a clear division of labor emphasis on written
rules, communication and record and impersonality of positions
Formal organization:
A secondary group designed to achieve explicit objectives.
Characteristics of bureaucracy:
There are several functions of bureaucracy or formal organization some of them are discussed
below.
Hierarchy of authority:
The organization is divided into clear cut level. Each level assigned responsibilities to the level
beneath it, while each lower level is responsible to the level above for fulfilling those
assignments
Division of labor
Each member of a bureaucracy has a specific task to accomplish and all of the task are then
coordinated to accomplish the purpose of org.in a college e.g. a teacher doesn’t run the operating
system, the president doesn’t teach.
Written rules:
In their attempt to become efficient bureaucracy stress written procedure.in general the longer a
bureaucracy exist and the larger it grows the more written rules it has. The rules of some
bureaucracy covers just about every imaginable situation. In university the rules are bound in
hand book separate once for faculty students administered civil service worker and perhaps other
that I don’t even know exist.

2. Written records and communication:
Records are kept of much of what occurs in a bureaucracy consequently workers in bureaucracy
spend a fair amount of time reading and writing memos .they also produce written reports
detailing their activities.
Impersonality of position:
It is the office that is important not the individual who holds the office. You work for the
organization not the replaceable person who heads some post in organization. Consequently
members of a bureaucracy owe allegiance to the officenot to particular people. If you work in a
bureaucracy you become a small cog in a large machine. Each worker is a replaceable unit for
many others are available to fulfill each particular functione.g. when a lecturer retires or dies
someone else is appointed to to take his/her place.