Bureaucracies

Is the current organizational configuration a bureaucracy?

• Unknown/undetermined
• Machine bureaucracy 
• Professional bureacracy
• Not a bureaucracy

For an organization to be a bureaucracy, it must be characterized by:

• Division of labor
• Well-defined authority hierarchy
• High formalization
• Impersonal in anture
• Employment based on merits
• Career tracks for employees
• Distinct separation of members' organizational and personal lives

OrgCon distingusihes two types of bureaucracies: Machine bureaucracy or professional bureacracy .