what are the elements of a modern bureaucracy?
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The modern bureaucracy is a rather fascinating thing. It is fascinating in the sense that it is all an elaborate ploy to exclude the layman or the voter out of the system which he enabled. The governments of today don't want popular participation, that's too "time-consuming" or "inefficient" that's why the bureaucracies are in place. You may ask what is the bureaucracy? The bureaucracy is the juncture where the effort to obtain a good is far surpassed by the anti-utility that you feel towards it. That means that if a certain measure is desired but not fulfilled because of a lack will, that is the bureaucracy working at 100% efficiency.
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1) E-mail blasts - quick reminders or links to web pages, incoming e-mail for questions/issues\n\n2) Newsletters - can be paper based or electronic\n\n3) Web pages - make a web page as a permanent resource for policies and procedures, encourage users to look their first to get their questions answered\n\n4) Telephone - establish a department hot-line to centralize information \n\n5) Vendor Fairs - bring the users and vendors face to face\n\n6) Bulletin boards - depending on the company setting and number of employees with computer access, this is still a viable way to get the word out\n\n7) Paycheck stuffers - (most) people are in a good mood when they receive their checks or direct deposit acknowledgments, give out brief information or direct users to one of the other sources with this method
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Because that is how the law sets up the bureaucracy to handle it.
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As much as modern organizations would like to think things have changed, in reality the organizational pyramid is alive and well, with the workers on the bottome, supervisors in the middle, and managers on top.  While there is some cross functional work meaning managers doing tasks(remember the typing pool and "take a letter" days) the vast majority of decision making regarding the goals of the organization, future outlook, rules and regulations, are still done by upper management.  Organizatons tout the idea that "it's their people that make the difference" yet in reality, "their people" are no better than anyone else's people.  For all the hoopla about pushing decision making to the people closet to the work, for cross functional teaming, for empowering the worker, look around and see if that is really occurring where you work.  Modern Times still makes us laugh because not much has changed and the modern worker can relate to it, just as the worker 70 years ago did.
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The person that makes the administrative decisions.
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In Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism, the historical origin of bureaucracy is to be found in four sources: religion, the formation of the state, commerce and technology.\n\n                     The earliest bureaucracies consisted of castes of religious clergy, officials and scribes operating various rituals, and armed functionaries specifically delegated to keep order. In the historical transition from primitive egalitarian communities to a civil society divided into social classes and estates, occurring from about 10,000 years ago, authority is increasingly centralised in, and enforced by a state apparatus existing separately from society. This state formulates, imposes and enforces laws, and levies taxes, giving rise to an officialdom enactingthesefunctions.
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Recommend Budget\nIn charge of state agencies\nPlan the future of the stae\nCoordinates state/federal/local gov't\nFills vacancies\nPrepares ballot title\nWritten opinion of laws\nInvestigation\nCharitable trust
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1. It slows things down and makes enacting laws innefficient.\n\n2. It tracks and records events related to laws being enacted.\n\n3. All bureaucracies grow. Never in history have they ever gotten smaller.\n\n4. They employ mostly low performing life-long staff that work at efficiency rates that are typically 2x - 10x less than private enterprise.
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It depends what their job description is.\n\nSome help manage an MPs time, sort out meetings etc.\n\nOthers help draft new proposals, private members bills or speeches.\n\nSome work for local authorities, councils and the like doing day-to-day administrative jobs. Basically any 'emination of the state' employs civil servants - people tend to think of them just as the ones at Whitehall but there are far more than that.\n\nA lot seem to want to run the country
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Art \nArchitecture \nGardens \nDress \nLiterature \nThe Aristocracy and Bureaucacy \nMusic \nMedicine \nCoinage \nEconomy
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Call meeting to order\nMotion to accept the agenda\nMinutes from last meeting\nBusiness from the minutes\nExecutive reports and action\nFinance reports and acceptance\nCorrrespondence for action\nUnfinished business\nNotice of motion to be brought to next meeting\nCorrespondence for information\nNext meeting\nAdjournment
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The way it governs itself.
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This is a very lengthy topic.\n\nBriefly:\nAristocracy,\nMilitary Bureaucracy,\nCivil Bureaucracy,\nTechnocrates,\nMiddle class,\nLower Class comprising of rural poor and urban poor.
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It sounds bureaucratic but a governmental system is the first order of the day. Next is tax schedules to raise money for and implement the all-important infrastructure planning, water, sewer, electricity, roads etc.
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Executive, Legislative, Judicial
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There are thousands of adminstrators that run different agencies and programs.  The are responsible for providing services that we use every day.  On the federal level, they are running Social Security, US Armed Forces, IRS, Department of Transportation, and so on.  On the state level, they are running MVD, state police, welfare programs, and so on.  On the local level, they run water services, garbage, police, fire, libraries, and so on.
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Everything involved with organizing, scheduling, and administration duties that keep things running smoothly: of course the basics- faxing, typing, filing, in-house correspondence etc.