An empirical study of bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic characteristics in 90 workplaces
Bolin, Malin ; Härenstam, Annika
Economic and Industrial Democracy
2008
29
4
November
541-564
division of labour ; labour flexibility ; management ; survey ; work organization
Work organization
English
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"The aim of the study was to explore bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic characteristics of organizational structure. A further aim was to investigate whether differences were related to types of industries. Eight organizational characteristics were measured, based on interviews with local managers at 90 workplaces in a broad sample of industries in mid-Sweden. The study showed that post-bureaucratic as well as bureaucratic characteristics coexisted in most workplaces. The results are not in accordance with the rhetoric that considers bureaucracy obsolete in contemporary organizations. Significant differences were revealed between industries in seven of the eight characteristics."
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