ey are given. People get their jobs because they are best qualified not because they know someone who can give it to them; there is no room for partiality.In a bureaucracy, there is no room for sympathy, emotional attachment and things of that nature. Impersonality is a key function to the efficiency of the bureaucracy because when feelings are involved, individuals lose sight of their role, violating the function of stringent adherence to written rules and regulations, de-specializing their job and making themselves partial. Recordkeeping processes of a bureaucracy allow for greater amounts of information to be gathered and retained for future reference, use, referral, etc. In this way, better and more efficient, informed and appropriate decisions and actions can be taken.Even though bureaucracies are for purposes of efficiency, they are not always such; there are advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantages of bureaucracies include ritualism, bloat and secrecy, preservation of inequality, invasion of privacy, and incompetence. Ritualism is a disadvantage because people get so caught up in rules, regulations and procedures that they lose sight of purpose, which proves to be very inefficient. Offices or departments often compete with the other in order to receive more benefits, or “organizational resources,” which can result in over-sizing of departments. Too many people can mean many mistakes, and due the emphasis of gain through competition, it is easy and desirable to dismiss or cover-up mistakes that can, in the grand scheme of things, be vital to the survival of the bureaucracy. This disadvantage can be coined as bloat and secrecy. While there are laws against discrimination, laws cannot change belief systems; laws merely make it harder to act on ones beliefs. There are ways to discriminate or preserve inequality; a woman or a minority’s work habits can be more scrutinized than say, a white man, and there is n...
