Nina Holm Vohnsen

The absurdity of bureaucracy

How implementation works

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Produktbeschreibung

The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them, or surpassing them. -- .

Produktdetails

• Political Ethnography
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781526150066
• ISBN-10: 1526150069
• Artikelnr.: 58591761

Autorenporträt

Nina Holm Vohnsen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University

Inhaltsangabe

Series editor's preface Acknowledgements Reading guide Central people,
documents, and organizations Prologue: Labor days Introduction: the
absurdity of bureaucracy 1 Anticipations Portrait 1: "making a difference"
Portrait 2: the perfect plan Analysis: a container of discrete agendas 2
Mutations Portrait 3: the trial mutates Portrait 4: satisfying needs
Analysis: vectors of concern 3 Multiplications Portrait 5: the purpose
multiplies Portrait 6: the productivity of controversy Analysis: absurdity
is a perspective that appreciates the sum-total 4 The quest for meaning
Portrait 7: "bending" the rules and agreements Portrait 8: the end of
meaning Analysis: they rebel, they do not resist 5 How implementation works
Epilogue: bureaucracy-choose your own adventure Appendix: data, position,
method