Organizational Development | Bureaucracy | Compliance | Project Management | Asset Yourself

Organizational structures can be very interesting. Bureaucracy and sequential hierarchy is a way to bring about order to an organization’s decision-making process. This is vital, because an organization is ultimately expected to make compliance to a whole list of items. These include consideration for client needs, adherence to law, implementation of policies, so on and so forth. Therefore, the role of bureaucracy is to identify and make decisions about which set of ideas (information, products, services) essentially fall to be in line with prescribed specifications. Accordingly, this bureaucracy must work to allow ideas in compliance to pass through and must hold back anything which falls short of specified needs.

Having said that, it is equally important for decision makers at different levels in hierarchy to communicate with skilled workforce which remains engaged in doing their job hands on. Such engagement with workers is critical to identify as to what must be done to facilitate them, such that they go on to produce good ideas (information, products, services) which eventually go on to comply with prescribed needs.

So, while bureaucracy and sequential hierarchy is important from decision-making point of view, the doors of participation and consultation between decision-makers and the workers should remain open at all times.

Waqas Ahmed
Asset Yourself

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