The 911 Terrorist Attacks And The Ensuing Government Bureaucracy

McDonalds Machine Bureaucracy vs. Failure in various modern Institutional Bureaucracies to achieve their goals: Power Struggles, Inability to plan and anticipate disasters, blaming, and vague roles

The bureaucratic failures of the United States Governmental agencies to prevent the 911 terrorist Attacks are a result of poor bureaucratic structure. This problem could be resolved by restructuring to attain a more health bureaucracy. One effective bureaucracy noted was that of the McDonalds Corporation. McDonalds and their machine bureaucracy can be used to address some of the issues faced in the United States Federal, institutional bureaucracies like FEMA, TSA, and Homeland Security.

Event 911Terrorist Attack

The 911 terrorist attacks resulted in more than 3,000 civilian deaths in New York and Washington (Dye 2008). Commercial airliners with civilian passenger’s were hijacked and flown at high speeds directly into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Televised images of the collapse of New York City’s largest buildings left a lasting impression on Americans. The nation found itself in a new war, the “war on terrorism” with a hidden enemy dedicated to killing as many innocent civilians as possible.

Bureaucratic Response: The Development of (DHS) Department Homeland Security and enactment of The Patriot Act: As a measure of reframing the formerly ineffective structure

Why as policy makers do we often address a problem incorrectly? Well this mistake is usually in the initial phase of policy making, and that is the problem identification phase. It is too often as policy makers we fail to see the whole picture, and as a result we are unsuccessful in creating policies that address these issues. ...

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... putting in place preventative measures to avoid catastrophes like FEMA’s failures during Katrina, failure of governmental agencies to prevent 911, and their failure to effectively address the problem of terrorism with the new found DHS, Department of Homeland Security.

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Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. E. (2008). Reframing Oranizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (4th ed., pp. 80-83). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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Dye, T. R. (2008). Understanding Public Policy (12th ed., pp. 315-331). Upper Saddle River,

NJ: Pearson: Prentice Hall.

Legislative Requirements and Key Terms: Country Reports on Terrorism. (2007, April 30). In U.S. Department of State: Diplomacy in Action. Retrieved November 30, 2011, from http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2006/82726.htm