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How to Eliminate Bureaucracy in Organizations?
Genevieve Northup, Editor, Germany, Premium Member
Likened to a crippling illness, many authors argued that bureaucracy must be eliminated from organizations. For example, Gary Hamel stated that bureaucracy prevents forward thinking and innovation, suppresses creativity and motivation, and “is the enemy of resilience” (as cited in Denning, 2014).
Management students and practitioners associate bureaucracy with a vertical mechanistic organization where strategic planning is conducted by upper management (Kreitner, 2009, pp. 245, 252). In such an organization, the “span of control” is narrow with many layers of supervisors, lower-level managers and middle managers, each overseeing relatively few employees (Kreitner, 2009, p. 251).

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Fighting Bureaucracy in NGOs
Jerry Mp, Entrepreneur, Uganda, Member
It is true that bureaucracy hinders many innovative ideas. Many young people have innovative ideas, but end up not implementing them because of too mu...Sign up
 

 
Tips to Eliminate Bureaucracy
Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
I agree with Leo Babauta what needs to be achieved is to move bureaucratic organizations from a bureaucratic culture to an action-oriented and innovat...Sign up
 

 
The Power of the Operations Manual to Fight Bureaucracy
Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member
A living, current and relevant operations manual (Ops Man) does more than define a business, it also regulates how the business operates and determine...Sign up
 

 
Fighting Bureaucracy in NGOs
Herman Heyman, Consultant, Belgium, Member
We have avoided a lot of bureaucracy by

- Keeping our NGO as flat as is wise ...Sign up
 

 
Focus on Results to Avoid Bureaucracy
Javier Elenes, Business Consultant, Mexico, Member
I recommend to focus the job descriptions on the contribution to expected results while listing all the activities to be performed by the job.
An...Sign up
 

 
How to Eliminate Bureaucracy
Otieno, Manager, Kenya, Member
The best way in my experience is to have all processes documented with levels of authority clearly defined. This allows staff to work with certainty a...Sign up
 

 
Let's Hear it for Bureaucracy!
Ray Chatwin, Lecturer, United Kingdom, Member
Bureaucracy shouldn't be used as a mud-pie to throw at organisations which are what Handy called 'role cultures'. Few organisations are a 100% fit to ...Sign up
 

 
Balance of Bureaucracy and Employee Ownership
Katie Pawley MBA, Consultant, United States, Member
Hello, I have reviewed everyones' submissions and all viewpoints listed should be considered when deciding how to eliminate bureaucracy. The informat...Sign up
 

 
Focus the Operations Manual to Fight Bureaucracy
Javier Elenes, Business Consultant, Mexico, Member
@Andrew Blaine: To focus the Operations Manual to fight bureaucracy, it should be focused on expected results and how...Sign up
 

 
How to Eliminate Bureaucracy in Organizations
Ajay kapoor, CxO / Board, India, Member
In order to eliminate bureaucracy, organisations should focus on processes & eliminate non-value added processes, empowerment, simplification of proce...Sign up
 

 
Experiences in Eliminating Bureaucracy in our Organization
V.SHRIDHAR, Business Consultant, India, Member
Bureaucracy in my organization has come down to single digit. As far as my observations in steel factory of nearly 30 yrs are valid, I feel the reason...Sign up
 

 
Prime Objective of an Ops Manual
Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member
@Javier Elenes: Hi Javier, at the risk of straying from the initial subject, I suggest that the prime objective of ...Sign up
 

 
Countering Bureaucracy by Designing Procedures and an Empowerment Frame
jorge anibal hoyos hoyos, Manager, Colombia, Member
There should be a cost-effective design of the procedures so that every component of the organization covers its own costs and acts in compliance with...Sign up
 

 
Management Culture and Bureaucracy
RAJI GEORGE, Management Consultant, Sultanate of Oman, Member
The level of bureaucracy depends on the level of democracy in the management culture and the level of the orientation (on-boarding) program for new re...Sign up
 

 
Employee Participation on How to do it Not What Shall be Done (Manager Responsibility)
Javier Elenes, Business Consultant, Mexico, Member
@RAJI GEORGE: Just an important practical note on employee participation:
To define WHAT shall be done is a res...Sign up
 

 
How to do it Best?
Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member
@Javier Elenes: Hi Javier, While I agree with your sentiments, I find it hard to accept the principle because, in ev...Sign up
 

 
How to do it Best
V.SHRIDHAR, Business Consultant, India, Member
I agree with Javier Elenes, there should be standard procedure as operating procedures in a broad sense. It should cover a maximum number of situation...Sign up
 

 
Arrange and Welcome Dissenting Views
Emmanuel Mwirichia, Manager, Kenya, Member
In a movie I watched recently (World War Z, starring Brad Pitt), the way that the zombies were initially stopped at the borders of Israel was by using...Sign up
 

 
Fight Bureaucracy by Using Cronyism
jorge anibal hoyos hoyos, Manager, Colombia, Member
The cronyism (Editor: ~favoritism) could be a solution. First of all to disclose the reasons producing such difficulties so as to define a way to be f...Sign up
 

 
Bureaucracy Bottleneck
Briolett, Manager, Canada, Member
Most decisions in an organization are made by a few at the very top - either direct or indirect based on the organizations stated objectives, rules an...Sign up
 

 
Can a Bureaucratic Culture Really Be Removed?
Radford, United Kingdom, Member
How is it possible to eliminate bureaucracy in an organisation if the managers, directors that have created the bureaucratic culture in the first plac...Sign up
 

   
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