The Values of Bureaucracy

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. The book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes 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.

ISBN 0199275467   Pages 368 ISBN13 9780199275465 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 545 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 17 Mar 2005   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2004025238   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 302.35   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		The values of bureaucracy : an introduction by Paul du Gay		1
1		The bureau as unit of governance by Charles T. Goodsell		17
2		Bureaucracy and liberty : state, authority, and freedom by Paul du Gay		41
3		Bureaucracy and the controversy between liberal interventionism and non-interventionism by Thomas Armbruster		63
4		Bureaucracy at work : misunderstandings and mixed blessings by Paul Thompson and Mats Alvesson		89
5		Beyond the iron cage? : bureaucracy and democracy in the knowledge economy and society by Michael Reed		115
6		Bureaucracy and beyond : managers and leaders in the 'post-bureaucratic' organization by Graeme Salaman		141
7		A service to the public : the containment of ethical and moral conflicts by public bureaucracies by Paul Hoggett		165
8		Bending bureaucracy : leadership and multi-level governance by Janet Newman		191
9		Performing for the public : doubt, desire, and the evaluation of public services by John Clarke		211
10		What is best 'value'? : bureaucracy, virtualism, and local governance by Daniel Miller		233
11		Gender equity - a bureaucratic enterprise? by Yvonne Due Billing		257
12		Bureaucracy, open access, and social pluralism : returning the common to the goose by Antonino Palumbo and Alan Scott		281
13		The popularity of bureaucracy : involvement in voluntary associations by Mike Savage		309

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