What are the pros and cons of bureaucracy?
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Pros: controlled, documented processes; accountability; compliance; \n\nCons: Inefficient; Perceived lack of accountability; Quality issues;\n\nGood Book: Cemetary Nights by Stephen Dobyns
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The following list is by no means exhaustive, but provides an indication of the range of issues that can be adapted to KPIs:\n\nWork quantity, productivity, work quality, time (eg deadlines, response, delivery, turnaround), revenue, return on investment, consistency/reliability, safety, environmental impact, use of resources, cost-effectiveness, management style, turnover/retention, promotion of diversity, workplace relations, training and development, communication.\n\n:> peace
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Time consuming\nErrors likely\nCan be costly (paying someone to do the accounting)\nWaste of cabinets
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Wow...many pros and cons to this.\nPros: up and coming business, definitely a future for this.\nCons:  liability issues, permit fees, government involvement (checking your business out)\nPretty tricky unless you know the right people who will have your back!
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Yes many differences. Look up for each system what their basis  and structure of govt are
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Cons:\n1. There is the possibility that the staff will inflat his/her own strengths and cover up his/her weaknesses.\n2. Some staff are better writers than the others.\n3. People have different values or standards, hence what meant by "Good" for one staff may be "Substandard" to another, there will not be a standard measurement.\n4. There maybe lots of disputes if the superior's view is very different from the staff's own view.\n\nPros:\n1. People know themselves the best.\n2. Staff may consider this fair for them to express themselves.\n3. This provides management the chance to know how the employees feel.\n\nThe best thing is to use a self evaluating process as part of the appraisal system, therefore you can have the employees input as well as the management's input.  Somehow, it is easier to strike a balance.
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Your main worry seems to be "stability". It can mean many things. If working in the new agency gives u the same "stability", u shld go.If not, it all depends. U seemed pretty confident that u can take on the world. If u r concerned about the disruption to your set family routine, u'll have to weigh the pros n cons. U'll also have to consider the additional responsibility with the birth of your 3rd child. If it concerns the stability of the company, u shld know better as u r in the industry.
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Lots of advantages, depending on your viewpoint, but these are the disadvantages I see:\n1. Really sick kids, as in critically ill children. You have to be able to separate yourself from that. \n2. You're often on-call EVERY night - unless you're in a big enough group that alternates call. \n3. Primary care doctors (pediatricans, GPs, Internal medicine, etc.) are often low on the HMO food chain, so if you're going into medicine for the money, become a specialist. \nGood luck!
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It is administration of government agencies.
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It has more disadvantages than advantages, but one of its advantages is the planning of the economy: A clear example of that are the examples of China and Mexico. In Mexico there is a democracy, so the discussion in congress stopped taking measures to attract investment. In China, the economy is centrally planned, so all the reforms needed to attract investment and create jobs were taken very fast, allowing the Chinese economy to grow at rates of 9% while Mexico was stuck.\n\nHowever consider the disadvantages of lack of freedom and that if an inneficient government get to power they can cause more damage.
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We all know the disadvantages are death, misery,repression, fright, bodily injuries, rampages, evilness.\nThe advantages would be population control, improved economy for many, advances in technology, employment, nationalism( may unite people who have a common enemy), education about other societies, spreading of ideas.
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Pros:\na bunch more relaxed people\n\nCons: \nanother thing for the gov't to tax\nincreased car accidents\neven more people not caring about anything but themselves\nmore overweight people\nlogistics problems to when and where it is legal\n\nIn other words it is an unintelligent thing to do.
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Pros:\nAllows lower income people to send their kids to private school.\nAllows parents to choose where they send their kids to school\nRewards good schools, punishes bad schools\n\nCons:\nTakes money out of an already cash-strapped public school system\nPublic schools are not allowed to turn down students, so students who aren't accepted by private schools will be stuck in even worse public schools.
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Cons \n-- too much paperwork (in addition to grading papers, daily lesson plans, and keeping grade books current... child study team paperwork, IEP student present levels paperwork, referral paperwork for discipline or counseling, academic level schoolwide data collection paperwork, requisition forms, curriculum mapping, movie permission forms, field trip request forms, cafeteria lunches for field trip request forms, parent permission slips, computer lab permission slips, textbook inventories, etc., etc.-- plus if you're in Special Education...the rest of the IEP paperwork, individualized lesson plans, additional present levels reports, progress reports ref. IEP goals, etc., etc.)\n-- low relative pay for the investment of training time (most people with similar degrees in other professions make 2x to 3x as much starting pay, and get raises fast...as a teacher you'll be getting almost the same pay for years)\n-- low relative pay for the real-time investment (contract is 182 days, 7.5 hours per day, but you take papers home for grading, plan in the evenings and over "vacations," read professional journals, attend professional development classes and conferences, etc.)\n-- problem parents (you're working their child too hard/not enough, you obviously hate their kid, your motivation is to torture their child emotionally, you don't care, the other kids are all the real problem, you don't know what you're doing, their child never does anything wrong, their child never lies to them, their child is brilliant but you don't know it, their child is mentally retarded but you don't know it--yes, I've heared this one before--parents can get money from the state if their child is severely disabled, etc., etc., etc. ad nauseum)\n-- the demands of NCLB (prime example is that all kids must be reading at grade level by 2012, including slower learners, those learning English as a Second Language, and those with special needs... it's like saying that amputees must run faster than Olympic-level athletes)\n-- the occasional oddball administrative creativity moment from your school or central office especially in regards to discipline procedure, or a "new is always better" approach to curriculum and instructional program adoption (sigh)\n-- the deer-in-headlights look you'll get when there's a problem (ranting parent, kids picking on each other, etc.) and in spite of your best efforts for your students, you seem to be the one with the target painted on your butt (and everyone is wearing big boots) -- always document everything you do during the day! (I have a spiral notebook just for non-routine interaction documentation)\n-- burnt-out colleagues that you have got to collaborate with (for various reasons) who are not interested in anything but meeting their contract time and hitting retirement age (burnt-out for all the reasons above) -- this one for two reasons...one is that it makes the project at hand very difficult for you, and two, the eerie and awful feeling that if you're not careful in dealing with your stress, that could be you someday.\n\nPros -- Working with kids, making a difference in their lives, that moment of happy excitement on their face when a student "finally gets it," getting to play with cool science and other materials, having a chance to be creative across a variety of subjects and media, the "boost" of a successful intervention with a child who was experiencing difficulties, the chance to be involved with your community in a positive way, having the people who were in your class walk up to you 10 years later and offer a sincere "thank you", having parents walk up and say "thank you" and/or who are obviously positively and deeply involved in their child's upbringing, working with a group of people (staff, administrators) all of whom are enthusiastically (mostly) there for the same reason you are -- love of teach
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The government is all about rules. Sometimes what you think is best for you or for anyone else doesn't follow the government's rules. Plus, the government has layers and layers of bureaucracy. Trying to get any meaningful change through all of that is very difficult.
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Bureaucracy is inefficient and mismanaged.  Government bureaucracies are not responsive to their constituents like a private business is responsive to their customers -- this is because bureaucrats salaries are paid irregardless of whether they actually help anyone.  Furthermore, bureaucracy is a waste of taxpayer dollars.  Not to mention the fact that dealing with bureaucrats and all their red tape is extremely frustrating.
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Pro: free travel, get to see lots of the world, really good pay\n\nCon: Have to keep learning, lots of differnet ways to do things in other countries, you move around a lot, need to be very self sufficent