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    This assignment is mainly about bureaucracy, post- bureaucracy and leadership styles used by the top management of RENCARE to achieve the organizational objectives. The drawbacks and benefits of Steve Tooker’s leadership style is also discussed later in this assignment. The concept of bureaucracy was developed by Max Weber who was a German Sociologist. According to weber “bureaucratic organizations are the most rational means of carrying out imperative control over human beings.” (Kuldeep, n.d.)

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    develop further to become the post-bureaucratic practices in leadership (Clegg and Courpasson, 2004). These practices are hybridization, which is refurbished by bureaucracy. They are also the mixture of Weberian ideal-type with principles of democratic leadership (Clegg and Courpasson, 2004). In this essay, I’ll begin with argument of post-bureaucratic leadership of Hedlund (1994) as well as outline the changes and make a comparison between bureaucracy and post-bureaucracy. Besides, I’m also going to

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    Post bureaucracy and the politics of forgetting The management of change at the BBC, 1991-2002 Martin Harris University of Essex, Colchester, UK, and Victoria Wegg-Prosser Bournemouth University, Dorset, UK Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the imputed “fall” and subsequent “reinvention” of the BBC during the 1990s, relating a managerialist “politics of forgetting” to the broader ideological narratives of “the post bureaucratic turn”. Design/methodology/approach

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    Since its early translations, Essay’s in Sociology (1948), Max Weber’s theory of bureaucracy has been used as a platform to study and understand the structures of an organisation, in service sectors. However, many societies have undergone significant change since the development of the theory, with the improvement of technology and globalisation, many view the bureaucratic model to no longer have relevance in contemporary organisational structure in the 21st century. The notion that a bureaucratic

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    The revolution of structural organizations from bureaucratic to post-bureaucracy has remodeled the basic theory of leadership, transitioning from an awfully powerful and rational approach to additional stress on equality, authorization, and reciprocity. Whereas a post-bureaucratic approach to leadership amends the numerous flaws of bureaucracy, it additionally possesses many pitfalls similarly. During this essay, the fundamental aspects of a bureaucratic are defined with Knights & Roberts (2006)

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    The ideas of the classical theorists, particularly those of bureaucracy and scientific management, are generally considered as rather old fashion and out of date, and of little relevance to work and organization today. Is this really the case? The classical theory is the earliest form of management that perceived that a set of universal principles would apply to all the organizations in all situations to achieve efficiency and organization's goals. Scientific management and bureaucratic theory

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    United States of America, the growth of the “fourth branch of government”, the Bureaucracy, has been a prominent, controversial topic. Peter Woll, in his article “Constitutional Democracy and Bureaucratic Power”, and James Q. Wilson, in his article “The Rise of the Bureaucratic State”, discuss this developing administrative branch. The Constitution has no written mention of an “administrative branch”, and today’s Bureaucracy is often tedious, corrupt, and even undemocratic. But such a branch’s development

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    effectively. From the industrial to post-industrial evolution of organizations, the emergence of several management theories and their components have been infused in business polices, protocols and regulations that transfer onto the organisation’s operations (Aldrich, 2008). Today’s literature on such practices informs the existence of two major styles of management theories: classical and contemporary. Classical and contemporary criticisms have approached bureaucracy as a vehicle for social commentary

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    A reinforcement of leadership practices in the post-bureaucratic era has refined business management sustainability from a monetary model to an environmental ideal. However, immense contribution to business notions has renewed neo-classical principles. Therefore, highlights a “hybrid” practice of the “Weberian” ecology and pecuniary “bureaucratic” advancements. (Clegg and Courpassan 2004: pg.; 527). In this essay, I discuss that post-bureaucratic leadership practices to an extent has contributed

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    conventionally concerns about civil servants and agencies in the executive branch, one among diverse and essential subfields is bureaucracy and organizational theory. In general, the development of studies on bureaucracy and organizational theory has gone through the period of classical theory to modern theory, and from modern theory to the advent of post-modernism and post-positivism. After historically reviewing the growth of knowledge on this subfield, forces behind the progress are the product

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