The Values of Bureaucracy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

AvPaul du Gay,UK) du Gay, Paul (Professor of Sociology and Organization Studies, and Co-Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities, and Governance, The Open University,Paul Du Gay

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The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our political, social, economic and cultural existence. This book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programs of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures, and seeks to highlight some of the costs of attempts to de-bureaucratize organizational life in business, government, and the third sector. Overall the volume highlights the values of bureaucracy and at the same time indicates why distinctively bureaucratic forms of organization should continue to be valued.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-03-17
Mått163 x 241 x 24 mm
Vikt683 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor359
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199275458

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Paul du Gay is Professor of Sociology and Organization Studies, and Co-Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. His research is located in the sociology of organizational life and cultural studies. His recent publications include, In Praise of Bureaucracy (Sage, 2000) and Cultural Economy (ed. with M. Pryke, 2002). Culture, Person and Organization: Essays in Cultural Economy will be published by Sage in 2005.

SECTION 1: THE POLITICS OF BUREAUCRACY ; 1. The Bureau as Unit of Governance ; 2. Bureaucracy and Liberty: State, Authority, and Freedom ; 3. Bureaucracy and the Controversy Between Liberal Interventionism and Non-Interventionism ; SECTION 2: THE END OF BUREAUCRACY? ; 4. Bureaucracy at Work: Misunderstandings and Mixed Blessings ; 5. Beyond the Iron Cage? Bureaucracy and Democracy in the Knowledge Economy and Society ; 6. Bureaucracy and Beyond: Managers and Leaders in the 'Post-Bureaucratic' Organization ; SECTION 3: BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT ; 7. A Service to the Public: The Containment of Ethical and Moral Conflicts by Public Bureaucracies ; 8. Bending Bureaucracy: Leadership and Multi-Level Governance ; 9. Performing for the Public: Doubt, Desire, and the Evaluation of Public Services ; 10. What is Best 'Value'? Bureaurcarcy, Virtualism, and Local Governance ; SECTION 4: BUREAUCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY ; 11. Gender Equality: A Bureaucratic Enterprise? ; 12. Bureaucracy, Open Access, and Social Pluralism: Returning the Common to the Goose ; 13. The Popularity of Bureaucracy: Involvement in Voluntary Associations

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