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Unit-24: Bureaucracy

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Did You Know? Bureaucracy is that category of government collection in which employees
is editing the functional and structural aspects like the part of machinery.
These are thrive on the mercy of high officers than public. They always
follow the seniors without bothering they are right of wrong.

24.4 characteristics of bureaucracy

There are some methods for the execution of every work. Bureaucracy is a method of administration.
These methods are made by officers. The definition of bureaucracy is helpful to phantom their speciality.
To keep in mind its definition can present their speciality-
1. Scientific Method of Governance and Management: We see at the ancient time from to take
modern time that there are different method for the operation of government. Bureaucracy
is also a special scientific method like all these methods.
2. Full of Specific Duties: Different employees and officers are under bureaucracy. These all
people are making specific collection. The original speciality of these officers is that they
completed a specific obligation. The obligation of every officer is already confirmed and
defines. These officers do not go out from specific work area and continuously round with
in that perimeter. In every stage officers are responsible to executive for their conduct. Every
employee helped each other in duty. Even the officer is in greater.
3. method of Hierarchy: Many officers make the bureaucracy system. These officers are
appointed. This appointment is performing on the bases of hierarchical method. The post
of all officers are confirms. Some officers are on high post and some are low post. Every low
post officer is responsible for high post. With it the duties are broadcast for officers, it is from
up to low. Every officer even they are in low post or high post, fastened by law. There are
operations of work through proper channel. Low post officer cross many horizontal at reach
on high post. Without this horizontally bureaucracy can be handicapped.
4. clear order of Duty: There are such arrangement under bureaucracy that the every member
of this method are necessary comply their specific duties. In this method every member
comply the specific duties otherwise member is dismissed. For comply the duties power is
divided in different form.
5. Difference in nature and personality: The main speciality of bureaucracy method made
by administrative arrangement that this raises two types, human personality and human
nature.
(i) Coronal Personality and
(ii) Public Personality.
When officers or employees are out from office then their personality is coronal. Then provide
importance to personal ideas. But come in office the personality of those person is governmental. It
is because those officers would not use coronal personality in their personal work.
6. importance of paper transaction: In the century of Democracy where are the arrangement
of written constitution, in these country the every work of bureaucracy is on paper. In
relation these work are in perform or late perform. These paper transactions are also called
‘Paper Horse Race’. It main mean is that work is in file accurately and file is revolve from
one table to another. It first reason is that employees do not work with passion, leanness
and responsibility. The quantity of work is more for that the time is short. They have even
more important private work but they will give preference to ordinary government work.

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