UNIT 3:

BUREAUCRACY:
RECRUITMENT AND
TRAINING
 MEANING OF THE TERM
“BUREAUCRACY”
■ French –bureau- writing table/desk
■ Desk govt.
■ Encyclopaedia Britannica – concentration of admve.
power in bureaus/depts. & undue interference by
officials in matters outside the scope of state
interference
■ John A. Vieg – negative term – approbation
[approval/praise]
■ F.M. Marx – 4 senses
1. A particular form of organization – more
specifically as general design for conduct of
Public Administration
2. An ailment of organization –obstructing good
management –Laski
3. In the sense of ‘Big Government’
4. As a blight, always for the worse falling on
liberty - Laski
1. GUARDIAN
BUREAUCARCY
T
2. Y CASTE BUREAUCARACY
P
E PATRONAGE
3.
S BUREAUCRACY

MERIT BUREAUCRACY
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1. GUARDIAN BUREAUCRACY
● Chinese Bureaucracy –upto Sung period [960 A.D]

● Prussian Civil Service -1640 &1740

● Scholastic officialdom trained in right conduct according to

classics [Marx}

● Plato’s concept of the Philosopher King

2. CASTE BUREAUCRACY
● Class base

● Arises from the class connection of those in controlling

positions [Marx}

● Oligarchical/political systems

● Upper classes/higher castes

● Willoughby –aristocratic
3. PATRONAGE BUREAUCARCY
• Spoils System

• Both based on favouritism

• Difference

• Patronage – continue in employment

• Spoils –quit when government changes

4. MERIT BUREAUCRACY
● Merit –basis –merit of public office

● aim - efficiency of civil service

● Spoils system – USA

● Patronage system – U.K.

● Attempt is to recruit the best man for the public service, his

merit being judged by objective standards

ROLE OF BUREAUCRACY
[FUNCTIONS/IMPORTANCE]
Implementation of
01 Governmental Policies &
Laws

02 Role in Policy-Formulation

03 Running of Administration

04 Role in Legislative Work

05 Role in Legislative Work

06. Semi-Judicial Work

Collection of Taxes &

07. Disbursement of Financial
Benefits
Record –keeping of vital
08. socio-economic statistics
09 Role in Public Relations

Direct contacts with the

people

Serve as a two-way link-

govt. decisions -people

Needs, interests and views of

the people – govt.