What Is Bureaucracy?

A human being cannot go throughout the day without being impacted by many different organizations. As organizations formed throughout our history, one form of organization has become most dominant in today’s society, and that is the bureaucracy. A bureaucracy is the most rational way of accomplishing a set of goals that humans have created so far. Yet even in the idea of a bureaucracy, many different ways to form the organization have been created. Max Weber and Charles Perrow both wrote about their ideas of bureaucracy, and these ideas can be seen in many different companies in the modern era. Lincoln Property Company is one organization that the ideas of these two sociologists can be examined. Lincoln Property Company owes a large part of

But unfortunately, the family and community focus that Wilder discussed in his interview, also seems to have led to an increasing amount of favoritism in terms of promotions for available positions. There are over 300 employee reviews as mentioned before on Glassdoor and Indeed, and even though the approval rating is very high for the company, many of them have cons listed along the lines of promotions happening based on the personal relationships of the workers. Over 1/10 of the reviewers believed that nepotism was an issue in the country, and even though the company was given a high rating, the fact that the employers thought that their promotions were based on personal relationships instead of companies weakened the reputation of the company. Perrow also adds to this critique by bringing to light the idea that “favoritism also means that corruption is a likely accompaniment” for the organization (Perrow 1986:9). Lincoln Property Company will continue to hurt itself if the employees it has believes that their advancement in the company comes from them being viewed as the favorite of the superior. In order for an organization to remain most effective a company needs to steer away from favoritism, and this comes from the training that Lincoln Property Company finds so integral to their

The creators of Lincoln Property Company used the ideas of rules and hierarchical structure discusses in the theory, but chose to take a different approach in their separation of public and private life, their adaptability, and their ideas of promotion. The theoretical writings on bureaucracy give companies a blueprint on how to form a bureaucracy, but then the board of that company molds the form in order to better accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish. This combination of theory and shaping of the modern bureaucracy is one reason that bureaucracies have grown to become the successful organizations that they are today. If companies are not perfect, as seen with Lincoln Property Company, the fact that bureaucracies are able to form their own type of organization allow for the world to be occupied by more diverse companies who can expand and change to help all of those