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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).
LESSENING BUREAUCRACY
To lessen bureaucracy, many organizations have REMOVED MANAGEMENT LA...
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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... |
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Tips to Eliminate Bureaucracy
Jaap de Jonge, CEO, Netherlands, Editor 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... |
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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.
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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... |
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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 ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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