Max Weber, a German sociologist, argued that bureaucracy was the most efficient model for private businesses and public offices. His theories influenced generations of business leaders and politicians ...

How does one characterize such a regime from a Marxist point of veiw? Sociologically speaking it was clear that it should be defined in the same way as the Russian regime. And it is here that the ...

Middle managers might have a poor reputation but without them visionaries wouldn’t be free to focus on a company’s aims. Bureaucracy isn’t always a negative thing – and efficiency isn’t always polite.

The Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) is an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st Century. The premise: while "modern" management is one of humankind's most important ...

There’s a long-standing tension in organizations between innovation and bureaucracy. Excessive layers of management and byzantine processes often shoulder the blame when a promising idea fails to make ...

Too much bureaucracy can not only stifle innovation and the pace of change, it can also cost companies financially. The U.S. economy wastes more than $3 trillion per year on excessive bureaucracy, ...

How a Chinese appliance maker is reinventing management for the digital age by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini Bureaucracy has few fans. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon calls it “a villain.” Berkshire ...

On his first full day in office, President Donald Trump imposed a hiring freeze on all nonmilitary federal employees. As a recently retired attorney who served more than 30 years in the Department of ...