AI46. There is a opinion that bureaucracy, which are equally likely to establish among both government and business, is far more damaging to the later than to the former. The conclusion seems a little bit plausible from the first sight, however, the supporters may ignore certain weakness of this argument. From my point of view, bureaucracy is at least as harmful to business as to government, considering the dissimilar targets, the different social influence, moreover, the equity of possibility.
First of all, there may not be an equal chance for the two different organizations to breed bureaucracy. It is a viewpoint defended by the majority that government is a more suitable place for bureaucracy to grow up. On the one hand, government is more hierarchy than the relatively democratically business. As in government agencies, the advanced officers not only receive higher salaries but also enjoy certain privileges, which is a predominant sign of bureaucracy. On the other hand, the likelihood of the appearance of bureaucracy is usually consciously suppressed by the leader of the company by the way of adjusting the structure or building up specific investigation regulations while it seems impossible for officers to challenge the prescriptions in a short time.
Even if bureaucracies are equally likely to occur in the two organizations, government could suffer more from bureaucracy than business due to the differences lying in the social influence between the two parties. As for bureaucratically business, only the employees will be the victims. Since the customers, or other related parties, have various methods to fight against bureaucracy. However, the victims of the bureaucratically government could be every citizens, regardless of their age, gender and social status. The reason is obvious: The government is the ultimate controller, so it is unrealistic to expect another force to rule it. Besides, the government associates with every individual’s daily life, that is to say, no one can drive the government out of his life.
Last but not the least, the degree to which one organization may be damaged by bureaucratic is determined by its targets. It is a universally acknowledged truth that the government is to direct a group of people, while the business is to make profit or to provide services. If the government is infected by bureaucrat icy, then the whole society is possibly moving towards a wrong direction. Nevertheless, the bureaucratically business is just faced with more trouble itself.
Overall, the recommendation- bureaucracy does more damage to business than to government, although both of then have the same possibility to establish bureaucracy- is insufficient. No one can deny that government may suffer more side-effects, or as many as, than business, when take the dissimilarities of ultimate goals and social effects into consideration. |