What Is Bureaucracy In Sports

What is bureaucracy?

If someone says I'm in a big bureaucracy it means their knowledge of English is very poor - bureaucracy is not an organization and it isn't a noun it's an adjective (a word that describes something) that means there is too much paperwork/ red tape/ meaningless procedures/ ineffective management that makes ten people do the job of one person so if you are a customer you have to run around and speak to all of those people and sign your name on endless bits of paper to get something very simple done that one person with a computer could do in a few seconds.

What is bureaucracy?

It refers to offices and paperwork that we need to have things organised. It comes from bureau, French for office. We need managers to decide how to run things, a payroll department to make sure everyone gets paid, records have to be kept - we can't do entirely without SOME bureaucracy.

In particular, it is used to mean offices as a bad thing. Yes, we need some of this, but is it efficient? It's easy for offices to grow and become inefficient, especially in government, so you could end up spending more than you really need to on this. Which in an education department, will mean less money for the actual schools and teachers.

The British government knows this so it does a review every few years to ask "What does this department DO and do we still need it? And if we DO still need it, could we do what it does in a simpler way with fewer people so we could save some money?"

The other possible reason for underfunding is just underfunding. It might be that the amount of money the government gives to education wouldn't be enough to run the schools even if there were no bureaucrats at all. It can't spend money it hasn't got so there are difficult choices - where should the money go (there are plenty of other things it needs to spend money on)? Should schools have more, and if so, where should that money come from? Could it raise taxes to get more money, should it borrow more money, find things to cut spending on, or some combination of all three?

Increasing taxes will make people complain, borrowing money means bigger bills in the future to make repayments, and cutting spending puts people out of work. In short, whatever you do, someone will moan. Who'd want to be in charge of the government budget, eh? Not me!

What is a Bureaucracy?

Bureaucracy is a whole bunch of people who exist to make sure that they continue to have their jobs, rather than to accomplish the mission of the organization.

Example: State Workforce Offices. They are supposed to help people find jobs. But the more people who find jobs, the fewer workforce staff we need. So they keep job seekers dependent on them for job referrals, rather than help them develop successful job search skills. And they measure totally useless factors to prove they are successful, such as how many job leads they gave to the customers. Clients with bad resumes, getting lots of job leads, and coming back for more.

What is a corporate bureaucracy?

For example: in a shoe factory the factory floor workers are the principle functionaries, you need human resources to hire, track, and pay all these workers. You also need someone to design the shoes, to market and advertise the shoes, to purchase the raw materials from which to make the shoes, janitors and maintenance folks, and finally, accountants to track incomes and outflows of moneys. These are all secondary and tertiary functionaries, ultimately necessary to the running of the factory, yet few ever touch the product, and, thus, are all "bureaucrats."

Okay, that is the bureaucrats, now for "bureaucracy." Bureaucracy is the rules and processes. In the shoe factory, the human resources department has to hire folks that will be good workers, but may know nothing about shoe factories, so the factory floor managers will provide guidance (a.k.a. rules) for human resources, to help them hire good workers. Designers might design any shoe, but this is factory makes running shoes, so there are rules saying what kinds of shoes, and some basic guidelines which make this company's shoes different from those from other companies. And purchasers will have rules, some from the designers regarding what kinds of materials, and some from management or marketing, perhaps regarding "only buy American" or "only buy the cheapest bid" or "try to purchase from ethical sources." The first two criteria for the buyers are pretty straightforward, but what is an "ethical source?" In this instance, someone will have to define ethical, and create rules or processes to ensure purchasers buy "ethically sourced" products.

It really isn't all that different than a government bureaucracy, the two primary differences being: 1) the job of politicians (the principal functionaries in government) is to create laws, and the bureaucrats are hired to interpret, enforce, and/or otherwise implement the laws; and 2) government uses social and economic well being of the citizenry as a measure of success or failure (or was, once upon a time) rather than profit.

What's wrong with the Bureaucracy?

No "bureaucracy" could ever work. They are simply inefficient and do not have clear-cut objectives, by definition. You have to understand that any organization's ability to meet its objectives is directly related to how close the sum of the individual members' goals are to the goals of the organization. If the employees' invidual goals don't match up with the bureaucracy's goals, then it's doomed to failure.

What makes private sector organizations work so much better than government organizations is that the business has similar goals as the employee, to make money. If each employee of a business is out to make as much personal money as possible while working on behalf of the business, then it is very likely the business will also make more money as well.

But since government organizations' employees also desire to make money while the organization does not have monetary goals, it's a recipe for disaster. The employees are basically pulling in a different direction than the organization itself.

What is bureaucracy ? is bureaucracy dead ?

They are essentially bureaus that are largely self governed without the standard - or what used to be standard - congressional over sight. They are run by bureaucratic dictatorships, without checks and balances. It sure would be nice to watch them all die agonizing deaths. But that won't happen. The SEC, for instance, has needed a gutting for decades. This latest Madoff debacle is hardly that bureaucracies' first tank-job. Someone up high will be sacrificed as is always the case, someone who probably had no knowledge of the previous tip off, and the rest of them will lick their wounds but carry on. A sort of twisted perversion to the old business bromide: business as usual. This crap never dies, not unless a lot of people are willing themselves to die in order to bury it; it only gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Just watch what happens after this. The government will double the size of that particular bureaucracy because the governments cure all is a belief that, when government fails, it's merely a sign that more government is needed.

What is a bureaucracy?

bu·reauc·ra·cy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (by-rkr-s)
n. pl. bu·reauc·ra·cies

Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials.
The departments and their officials as a group: promised to reorganize the federal bureaucracy.

Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures: The new department head did not know much about bureaucracy.
The administrative structure of a large or complex organization: a midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.
An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action: innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.

What is a bureaucracy and how does it function? What are some examples of state bureaucracies?

Bureaucracy is the "background" portion of any modern organization (private or public) that makes it possible for that organization to do...whatever it does.

For example, a shoe factory makes shoes. But, to make shoes, someone must buy the raw materials (leather and rubber, or nylon and polyurethane, or...whatever). That person (or department) does not make shoes, but must exist in order for the factory to work. Also, in a factory, you must have many workers, someone has to hire them, track their hours, pay them, and so on...so you have personnel (a.k.a. human resources). They have nothing to do with making shoes, but must exist for the factory to work. And, since they don't make the shoes, they probably don't know what the best shoe worker is, so they have rules and processes to help them hire good shoe makers. Similarly, the purchasers may not be shoe experts, so they have rules and processes to help them select the best raw materials. So, we have bureaucrats (purchasers, personnel) and we have rules (a.k.a. red tape).

Now, you ask about state bureaucracies. DMV is one of the most well known. Before someone is allowed to hurtle themselves around the roads in 2 tons of steel and plastic, mortally endangering themselves and others, they are supposed to learn how to drive and get licensed. Laws were drawn up to spell out things like age, eyesight, and so on (the politicians are essentially the factory workers, churning out laws). Once the law exists, it is up to the bureaucrats to implement or enforce the law: how do you test someone for "can you drive?" The laws might spell out some of the specifics, but often the bureaucrats must define the specifics. Do you just ask someone if they can drive? Do you just ask them how old they are? Does it matter if they can see more than 15 feet? So, yes, bureaucrats make up some rules, which often can be easily struck down by courts or new laws. The job of the bureaucrat is to define rules as objectively as possible, within the letter of the law, the state constitution, and the federal laws and constitution...and then to enforce the rules as objectively as possible. Thus, the DMV in Springville should grant (or reject) licenses that the DMV in Greenville would. If you don't have this, you fail to have rule of law.