Bureaucracy is a central component in many important debates in organization theory. First suggested as a way to efficiently manage organizations that would replace favouritism and partiality with clear, transparent rules (Weber, 1922), the growth of bureaucracy was seen to lead to the domination of ‘rational matter of factness’ (Weber, 1922; 240). Since its inception, bureaucracy has been inte...

Objectives To describe the nature of unprofessional behaviour displayed by medical students, as well as the characteristics of students referred to the professional behaviour board. Methods A descriptive mixed methods approach was taken, in which qualitative data on unprofessional behaviour, as well as quantitative data on the demographics of referred students were collected during the study ...

The management literature is presenting a most critical view of the bureaucratic organization form as what is essentially incapable of responding to external changes and providing meaningful work assignment for its co-workers. This negative image of bureaucracy is largely taken for granted and are only occasionally supported by empirical evidence. This paper presents a study of how co-workers i...

It is a well-known fact that Social Media (SoMe) has changed, or maybe even revolutionized, the way people communicate, interact, behave and generally live, both in their professional and in their private lives. Among the many SoMe platforms available, Facebook is currently the most dominant; as of June 22nd 2017, it serves a community of some 2 billion content-generating users [1]. Urologists ...

AIM To determine the views of new house officers (HO) on professionalism and unprofessional behaviour following dismissal in January 2007 of a HO who was caught video-taping nurses in the shower. METHODS An anonymous self-administered questionnaire was administered during new house officers' orientation. Using a Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree), HO were asked to rank...

Research on representative bureaucracy has failed to deal with whether or not representative bureaucracies produce minority gains at the expense of nonminorities. Using a pooled time series analysis of 350 school districts over six years, this study examines the relationship between representative bureaucracy and organizational outputs for minorities and nonminorities. Far from finding that rep...