All Posts Tagged With: "machine bureaucracy"
A couple of different organizational bureaucracies…
My lack of posting much recently owes to my having had the opportunity to do some work with a couple of different organizations, each with very different cultures, though the leadership of each would describe them in terms very similar to each other. Both are service organizations, and both profess a style of operation that [...]
17Jun2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
From SNAFU-ed …. Situation Normal: Medical Marijuana User Dies After Being Denied Transplant
Here’s one for your daily dose of bitter gall: SNAFU-ed …. Situation Normal: Medical Marijuana User Dies After Being Denied Transplant Timothy Garon, 56, died Thursday at Bailey-Boushay House, an intensive care nursing center. He was denied a spot on the transplant list primarily because he used medical marijuana to ease the symptoms of hepatitis-C. [...]
5May2008 | Deborah Alicen | 1 comment | Continued
The academics of bureaucracies
Every now and then in these posts I have mentioned, or quoted others who mentioned, the importance of developing a professional bureaucracy. What I’ve not yet touched on are the academics of bureaucracies—formal studies and theories and research about the different types of bureaucracies, their characteristics, and the work they are suited for. And not [...]
24Apr2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
