EPA-04 Personnel administration Unit5 Civil service in the context of modern bureaucracy

  Types of bureaucracy
(1) The guardian bureaucracy
(2) The caste bureaucracy
(3) The patronage bureaucracy
(4) The merit bureaucracy


Characteristics of bureaucracy
(1)Division of labour
(2)Hierarchy
(3)System of rules
(4)Role specificity
(5)Rationality
(6)Impersonality
(7)Rule orientation
(8)Neutrality


Role of bureaucracy

Reasons for growing importance of bureaucracy in recent years.
(1)Increasing population
(2)Industrial development
(3)The growing need of welfare of people.
(4)Multifarious activities of modern state
(5)Rising expectations of people.


Demerits of bureaucracy
  (1)Unresponsive to popular demands and desires.
  (2)Diffusion of responsibility.
  (3)Excessive redtapism or undue formalism.
  (4)Lack of dynamism, adventurism and forwar-looking vision.
  (5)Self perpetuating
  (6)Empire building
  (7)Lack of accountability.
  (8)Concern for routine and trivial matters.



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