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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451595903321

Autore

du Gay Paul

Titolo

The Values of Bureaucracy [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2005

ISBN

0-19-164773-X

0-19-155698-X

1-4237-8678-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (557 p.)

Disciplina

302.3/5

302.35

Soggetti

Bureaucracy

Organizational change

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; The Values of Bureaucracy: An Introduction; Part 1: The Politics of Bureaucracy; 1. The Bureau as Unit of Governance; 2. Bureaucracy and Liberty: State, Authority, and Freedom; 3. Bureaucracy and the Controversy between Liberal Interventionism and Non-Interventionism; Part 2: The End of Bureaucracy?; 4. Bureaucracy at Work: Misunderstandings and Mixed Blessings; 5. Beyond the Iron Cage? Bureaucracy and Democracy in the Knowledge Economy and Society

6. Bureaucracy and Beyond: Managers and Leaders in the 'Post-Bureaucratic' OrganizationPart 3: Bureaucracy and Public Management; 7. A Service to the Public: The Containment of Ethical and Moral Conflicts by Public Bureaucracies; 8. Bending Bureaucracy: Leadership and Multi-Level Governance; 9. Performing for the Public: Doubt, Desire, and the Evaluation of Public Services; 10. What is Best 'Value'? Bureaucracy, Virtualism, and Local Governance; Part 4: Bureaucracy and Civil Society; 11. Gender Equity-A Bureaucratic Enterprise?

12. Bureaucracy, Open Access, and Social Pluralism: Returning the Common to the Goose13. The Popularity of Bureaucracy: Involvement in



Voluntary Associations; Index; Footnotes

Sommario/riassunto

The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science, as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our political, social, economic, and cultural existence.The book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic