Title: Bureaucracy-bureaupathology in education and administration

Authors: Anastasios St. Ntanos; Konstantina Boulouta

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, ??? of Piraeus, Egaleo, Greece. ' Department of Business Administration, ??? of Piraeus, Egaleo, Greece

Abstract: The term bureaucracy refers to all those processes, characterised by excessive complexity resulting in undue delay or inaction in education and administration. The uncontrolled swelling, which dominates the entire educational and administrative system, leads to a complicated, cumbersome and time-consuming operation of these systems, causing stiffness, resulting in higher costs, in sharp drop to service quality and in citizen's justified grievances. In the case of these institutions, the bureaucracy refers to a complex organisational and operating system. This system consists of a huge number of relations, activities, roles and hierarchical dependencies, developed in the field of education and administration, to carry out policies, which are set by the current political leadership and cover in an unusual way the entire range functions. In its ideal form, bureaucracy requires by its rates consistency, loyalty and adaptability to the environment and to the changing circumstances.

Keywords: bureaucracy-bureaupathology; administrative systems; organisational systems; hierarchical dependencies; adaptability; bureaucracy; education; administration.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSCM.2012.046502

International Journal of Strategic Change Management, 2012 Vol.4 No.2, pp.129 - 138

Published online: 31 Dec 2014 *

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