Nina Holm Vohnsen

The absurdity of bureaucracy (eBook, ePUB)

How implementation works

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them, or surpassing them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526101365
• Artikelnr.: 48796348

Autorenporträt

Nina Holm Vohnsen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University

Inhaltsangabe

Series editor's preface Acknowledgements Reading guide Central people,
documents, and organizations Prologue: Labor days Introduction: the
absurdity of bureaucracy 1 Anticipations Portrait 1: "making a difference"
Portrait 2: the perfect plan Analysis: a container of discrete agendas 2
Mutations Portrait 3: the trial mutates Portrait 4: satisfying needs
Analysis: vectors of concern 3 Multiplications Portrait 5: the purpose
multiplies Portrait 6: the productivity of controversy Analysis: absurdity
is a perspective that appreciates the sum-total 4 The quest for meaning
Portrait 7: "bending" the rules and agreements Portrait 8: the end of
meaning Analysis: they rebel, they do not resist 5 How implementation works
Epilogue: bureaucracy-choose your own adventure Appendix: data, position,
method