Bureaucracy And The Education System

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Is a bureaucratic structure an effective route for school systems? There are ample of evidence to suggest so and even claim that schools today are ran on a bureaucratic system. Educators all over the globe are frantically researching and searching for the right structure in place to bring about desirable changes and improvements to the education system. Not only are educators scrambling for a change but also government officials and society are. It seems like everyone wants to voice their opinion and attempt to enforce it. Educators have looked into this system of bureaucracy and some have adopted characteristics and features into their own system as there is some good in it but just because they do does not classify them as bureaucracies, that is because they are not.
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All in all, it’s definition seems to be similar across the line in the basic sense. Bureaucracy is a system that “makes critical decisions which shape the economic, political, social, and even moral lives of nearly everyone on earth” (Downs, 1964, p. 1). According to Alder & Borys (1996) the negative view of bureaucracy is a form of organization that stifles creativity, fosters dissatisfaction, and demotivates employees whereas the positive view, bureaucracy provides needed guidance and clarifies responsibilities, thereby easing role stress and helping individuals be and feel more effective (p. 61). This system is not carried out by all organizations and entities but by ones that choose to be and usually are the ones that fit the description.
Bureaucratic organizations are known as bureaus if and only if it possess specific

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