1. THE BUREAUCRACY
By:
1. Parth Raj-94
2. Rahul Kumar-111

2. BUREAUCRACY DEFINED
 A Bureaucracy is "a body of nonelective
government officials" and/or "an administrative
policy-making group. "
 An organizations with a hierarchical structure and
specific responsibilities
 An organizations which operate on management
principles intended to enhance efficiency and
effectiveness

3. HISTORY

4. WORD ORIGIN
 The term "bureaucracy"
is French in origin
 It combines of French
word bureau – desk or
office – with the Greek
word kratos – rule or
political power
 It was coined sometime
in the mid-1700s by the
French
economist Jacques
Claude Marie Vincent de
Gournay

5. CHARACTERISTICS OF BUREAUCRACY
S- Specialization
H-Hierarchy
R-Rule
T-Technical competence
I-Impersonal
F-Formal written communication

7. ADVANTAGES AND PROBLEMS WITH THE
BUREAUCRACY

8. THE ADVANTAGES OF
BUREAUCRACY
 Bureaucracies are created and evolved as a
means to undertake the purposes and
responsibilities of organizations. They
provide:
• Standardization
• Expertise and Competence
• Accountability
• Coordination

9. THE PROBLEMS OF
BUREAUCRACY
 Size – Can institutions this large effectively
manage many of the tasks assigned them?
 Coordination – Can agencies with offices
throughout the country effective coordinate
a single policy?

10. BUREAUCRATIC
FUNCTION

11. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BUREAUCRACY
Implementation
Regulation
Administration

12. IMPLEMENTATION
 The executive branch is charged with the
enforcement of the law, and agencies are largely
the mechanism for this.
 However, most statutes contain vague language, so
in implementing the law agencies often have great
discretion on its exact meaning.

13. REGULATIONS
 General statutory language can become the basis
for the bureaucracy’s development of its own
precise rules, a form of agency-created law called
regulations, which govern the topics under a
particular agency’s jurisdiction
 Statutes also specify the procedures that agencies
must use in developing regulations

14. ADMINISTRATION
 Michael lipsky is well know in the field of public
administration
 It is concerned with the implementation of
government policies
 Classic public administration underpinned by
professional and politicians.