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Bureaucracy Essay -REQUIREMENTS:
Describe an organization with which you are familiar and which appears to fit the characteristics of a bureaucracy, as listed in Our Social World: An Introduction to Sociology, Chapter 6.
Your essay should incorporate the five items listed below and show that the organization bureaucracy meets each characteristic:
1) Clear hierarchical levels of authority with the work assignments flowing downward
2) A division of labor
3) Written rules
4) Written communications and records
5) Impersonality and replaceability
Well-written in standard academic English and formatted in the appropriate style documentation guidelines. Essay is at least 1,250 words.
Conclude your essay with a paragraph that describes some ways in which this organization may be dysfunctional because of the bureaucratic way in which it is operated.
The goal of this assignment is for you to use your life experience as data to understand the nature and function of a bureaucracy.
In an essay of 1,250 words, describe an organization with which you are familiar and which appears to fit the characteristics of a bureaucracy, as listed in Our Social World: An Introduction to Sociology - chapter 6.
Your essay should incorporate the five items listed below and show that the organization bureaucracy meets each characteristic:
1. Clear hierarchical levels of authority with the work assignments flowing downward
2. A division of labor
3. Written rules
4. Written communications and records
5. Impersonality and replaceability
Conclude your essay with a paragraph that describes some ways in which this organization may be dysfunctional because of the bureaucratic way in which it is operated.
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