Essays Tagged: "bureaucratic"

Role of Government Intervention in Environmental Issues

chieve efficiency. Furthermore the traditional command andcontrol approach has proven to be costly, bureaucratic and often inefficient.It is important to address the fact that there are numerous benef ... able to devisetheir own plan. This saved them a great amount of time with out the usualcumbersome, bureaucratic procedures. The Intel company, in this case, boughtthe effluent from the cityUs waste w ...

(7 pages) 421 0 4.9 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Japan And Its Entrance Into The West

omy rivaled that of the western powers. It had regained complete control of its highly centralized, bureaucratic government and by fighting and winning two wars (one of them against a major European p ... the East.Political reforms made during the Meiji period succeeded in creating a highly centralized bureaucratic government. On the political sector, Japan received its first European style constituti ...

(5 pages) 160 0 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Similarities and Differences between the English Parliament and the French Monarchy

his in turn was backed by a powerful ruling class of nobles and royalty. This provided an efficient bureaucratic government that mirrors the Democratic-Republic system that is currently employed in Am ...

(2 pages) 60 1 3.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870 - 1924 Driven by ideological zeal, Lenin reshaped Russia and made communism into a potent global force.

---------Not long after the Bolsheviks had seized power in 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin filled out a bureaucratic questionnaire. For occupation, he wrote "man of letters." So it was that a son of the R ...

(5 pages) 88 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Functioning bureaucracies in the United States.

t; mainly due to bureaucracies having no competition, their purposes not being clearly defined, and bureaucratic pathologies.When we think of bureaucracies, we think of a process that needs to be chan ... originates in somebody's demand for it'" In our situation this is nothing but true. But inevitably bureaucratic pathologies come into play, which in fact consist mostly of bureaucratic red tape, miss ...

(2 pages) 73 2 3.4 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Joseph Stalin.

onvert communism in the U.S.S.R. from an egalitarian, revolutionary movement into an authoritarian, bureaucratic governmental system.Stalin experienced a deprived childhood in poverty; his father was ...

(2 pages) 87 2 2.8 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Future of Management.

anagement function can include problem solving and facilitating meetings as well as the traditional bureaucratic tasks. However, it is not necessary for the same person in a group to exercise all thes ...

(3 pages) 423 4 4.4 Jul/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Evaluating democratic consolidation in Ghana.

and culturally fragmented. The middle or bourgeois classes were predominantly weak and usually more bureaucratic than entrepreneurial, more often than not, they were also drafted into the authoritaria ...

(10 pages) 93 0 3.5 Aug/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Pondy's view in the "process of conflict".

tial for several sources of conflict, such as interdependence, differences in goals and priorities, bureaucratic factors, incompatible performance criteria and competition for resources.As organizatio ... se of status inconsistencies between different groups in the organization's bureaucracy. One of the bureaucratic conflict occurs between staff and line functions. A line function is directly involved ...

(3 pages) 82 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Orgins of the Cultural Revolution. Talks about how the Cultural Revolution in China came about. May need some grammatical work.

and strongly political. It was developed by Mao Zedong to combat the reemergence of old patterns of bureaucratic arrogance and careerism, convinced that drastic measures were necessary to prevent the ...

(6 pages) 133 0 4.1 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The state of the Global Music industry from a Sociological Perspective.

hear, transport, obtain music and ultimately how or "if" we purchase music. It seems however, that bureaucratic institutions such as the court of law and record industry associations have not been ab ... ys to break free of these political hegemonic shackles, using creative methods to get past existing bureaucratic measures "Many DJs outside Beijing play entire sets downloaded from the Web; for the ma ...

(8 pages) 191 0 3.4 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Analysis of a Health care delivery system

ties are too small to support a hospital obstetrical unit. Because they are small and generally non-bureaucratic, they may overcome social and emotional barriers that contribute to the poor use of fac ...

(4 pages) 389 0 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

"United Parcel Service: Basic management structure."

nding company with new acquisitions in the Asia/Pacific region, Latin America, and Europe. With its bureaucratic approach to the company's management system with tight rules and regulations, and a wel ... mployee quotas and achievements are reported on a weekly and monthly basis. I have experienced this bureaucratic approach to management first hand as an employee at UPS. From my experience there, I ha ...

(6 pages) 354 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The new managerial thoughts and organisational approaches like empowerment, delegation decentralisation and self-managed teams has ensued the changes as compared to the traditional approach.

l approach of the managerTraditional or classical management focuses on efficiency and includes bureaucratic, scientific and administrative management. (Ward M., 1995)2.1 Bureaucracy managemen ... , H.)Fayol's management approach also has a similar strength and weaknesses as compared to both bureaucratic and scientific approach.3. Modification to classical roles of managersThe alter ...

(7 pages) 303 0 3.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Media analysis of propaganda

not wipe out all modes of thought; it simply controlled and encouraged the dominant ideas that the bureaucratic leaders fed the public via propaganda. He felt that it was the public not wanting to kn ...

(11 pages) 170 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

How do work teams and self management change the nature of work place organisation, motivation and control?

f their knowledge, skills and capabilities.Work-teams are said to be a defining feature of the post bureaucratic organisation, in which horizontal networks replace vertical hierarchies, and control is ...

(9 pages) 595 1 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Symbolistic Essay.

etween Gregor and Kafka is their resentment towards their work environment. In reality, Kafka had a bureaucratic job, which he chose because he would get off at 2 in the afternoon, and have the rest o ...

(2 pages) 94 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Essay on achebe's "dead mans path"

ath"In the story of Chinua Achebe "Dead Man's Path" the school principal and his wife represent the bureaucratic thinking of the new Nigeria in many ways. First of all, they were young energetic peopl ...

(2 pages) 38 1 0.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work A book report on Positive Political Skills at Work by Peter Block APA Format

organizations today. In his book, he writes about two different types of politics: the negative, or bureaucratic, and the positive, or entrepreneurial. He outlines each of the types of politics as a c ... rst type of politics Block writes about is the negative politics. He relates negative politics to a bureaucratic cycle, which is a series of parts. They are the patriarchal contract, myopic self-inter ...

(4 pages) 94 0 4.3 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Russian Revolution: To what extent was powerful revolutionary leadership and clear revolutionary ideas the reason for the successful Bolshevik revolution in October 1917?

and this made Russian vulnerable to Revolution. "The Tsar was replaced by an autocratic, oppressive bureaucratic and militaristic police state under the Bolsheviks." The Bolsheviks were a well organis ...

(7 pages) 84 1 4.3 Jul/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History