In Praise of Bureaucracy

Weber - Organization - Ethics

• Author(s): Paul du Gay,
• Publisher: SAGE
• Pages: 159
• ISBN_10: 0761955038
  ISBN_13: 9780761955030
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior , Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration , Political Science / American Government / General ,

Description:... In this provocative new study, Paul du Gay makes a compelling case for the continuing importance of bureaucracy. Taking inspiration from the work of Max Weber, du Gay launches a staunch defence of `the bureaucratic ethos' and highlights its continuing relevance to the achievement of social order and good government in liberal democratic societies.

Through a comprehensive engagement with both historical and contemporary critiques of bureaucracy and a careful examination of the policies of organizational change within the public services today, du Gay develops a major reappraisal of the so-called `traditional' ethic of office. In doing so he highlights the ways in which many of the key features of bureaucratic conduct that ca