Disadvantages Of Bureaucratic Management Theory

Vail Valley Medical Center is an organization run mostly by the Bureaucratic Management Theory. A bureaucracy is any form of organization that subscribes to an authority in the structure of a hierarchy and has a rigid set of rules. The purpose of the Bureaucratic Management Theory can be described as a system the enables an organization to expand and grow into a very complex company with very specific rules and regulations resulting in great success. An advantage of the Bureaucratic Management Theory is that it is the model by which all modern day theories are judged against. Some of the disadvantages of this theory are: the organization may become too focused on rules and regulations as opposed to success, rules and procedures can

These negative aspects cause the organization, as a whole, to suffer. When employees aren’t encouraged, valued and empowered, the organization is not getting their best effort resulting in job performance being less than its actual potential “contemporary employees prefer to have more equal opportunities to make decisions than bureaucracies present (Cummings, S., & Bridgman, T., 2011). Politics and red tape really affect morale and are a detriment to any organization’s strength and

“While his supposed ideal bureaucracy is unrealistic in today’s business environment, the theory of bureaucracy contains valuable elements which have subsequently been built upon by other scholars” (Cummings, S., & Bridgman, T., 2011). The company should look to the Human Relations Theory to adjust some of its policies and structure. Departments should be encouraged to interact with one another to exchange ideas and familiarize one another with what each department is responsible fo . This could be achieved by creating a standing meeting once per month where each department sends a different representative each time. These meetings could act as roundtable discussion to exchange thoughts and preform troubleshooting. This could provide a great catalyst for engagement amongst employees and to increase morale, ”researchers found that peer group relations among the workers were more influential than working conditions on the level of output” (Pryor, M. G., Humphreys, J. H., Taneja, S., & Toombs, L. A., 2011). Meetings will also help to diminish silos and encourage employees to share information as opposed to keeping it close to increase power. Ordinarily the managers of each department meet, but there is nothing fresh about their engagement and these meetings might be so expected they are often stale. The socialization of employees at lower levels