POLS 2250 Chapter 2: chapter 2

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2250
• Professor: Tim Mau

Document Summary

Chapter two: public administration and organization theory: the structural foundation. Bureaucracy is dead long live bureaucracy: most people tend to have largely negative perceptions of bureaucracy. It has been suggested that rather than creating post-bureaucratic organizations, public sector reforms and the proposed new governance models have merely resulted in new or extended forms of bureaucracy. Max weber and classical bureaucratic theory: first person to systematically study bureaucracy, suggested that the modern bureaucratic form consisted of a number of related characteristics. The canadian experience from patronage to merit: the ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374) federal go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:271)ega(cid:374) adopti(cid:374)g so(cid:373)e of taylor"s ideas to (cid:373)o(cid:448)e fro(cid:373) a patronage-based public service to a merit-based one, thus moving toward the weberian concept of bureaucracy. Line function any kind of daily operation that is directly involved in provision of goods or services by an organization: staff functions provide advice and support to those engaged in a line function.