Bureaucratic phenomenon

Author: (French) Michel Crozier
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This book is an academic monograph by a renowned French scholar on the phenomenon of bureaucracy in the modern organizational system of France. Through an in-depth analysis of two highly typical cases—the Paris accounting firm, a vast public administrative department, and the joint industrial monopoly enterprise, a state-owned large industrial organization—the author meticulously examines key issues within these organizational systems, including hierarchical structures, management principles, personnel relations, promotion systems, work efficiency, and decision-making methods. The author argues that the bureaucratic organizational system is too rigid to adapt to change without crisis, and that change is increasingly inevitable due to the accelerated evolution of industrial society. Additionally, the author compares the organizational systems of neighboring European countries, the United States, the Soviet Union, and others within the broader context of French society and culture, thereby highlighting the role and significance of organizational systems and their future development directions.