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This 5 page paper looks at the argument that the bureaucratic organizational model is now obsolete, looking at the model itself, the benefits that it helped to be realized and the way that subsequent organizational models have evolved, leaving bureaucracy behind, but still retaining some bureaucratic features. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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adaptability within organizations. One of the older models that was very popular was that of the bureaucratic organization, a very formalized and hierarchical structure, has been argued as obsolete,. But
looking at the model in more detail may be argued that there are some potential benefits to the bureaucratic structure, which may not often manifest in the pure model but
influence other models. The bureaucratic model has a traditional structure, where there is a strict hierarchal power structure and power is delegated from the top of the hierarchy downwards
with different levels of authority and there is an important controlling role for policies and rules. In complex organisations the power may need to be spread over the organisation, however,
even where this occurs there is still the hierarchal structure and decisions are directed by company policy. It may be argued that it is an out of date
structure as unlike other areas of business it has not changed. Handy was certain of this opinion with his ideas of flatter organisations and the clover leaf structure he foresaw
as meeting the needs of the future where there was increased needs for efficiency with flexible structures (Handy, 2005). However, it
we look at the ideas of Weber, he argued that this was an structure that sought to find an efficient way of managing large workforces. His perspective was that the
bureaucratic model subdued the human issues and made use of reason and logic for decision to be made with reference to calculable rules. This, he argued was a rational approach
that emerged as a result of social engineering that took place and may be see as having equivalents with the use of machines in the industrial revolution as a logical
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