## Definitions - [[Definition of Bureaucracy]] - [[Professional Bureaucracy]] - [[Adhocracy]] ## Criticisms - [[The Failings of Bureaucracy in a modern workforce]] - [[The cost of Bureaucracy]] - [[Bureaucracy is entrenched because it is familiar, complex, serves a purpose, and helps the powerful]] - [[Bureaucracy has an economic cost]] - [[There is a moral imperative to defeating bureaucracy]] - [[Capital allocation in a bureaucracy is inherently broken]] ## Measures - [[Bureaucratic Mass Index]] ## Exemplars - [[Nucor]] - [[Southwest Airlines]] - [[Haier]] ## Alternatives - [[Adhocracy]] - [[Holacracy]] - [[Managerless Organisations]] - [[Principles of Sociotechnical systems (STS)]] ## Links - [[Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety]] - how does this apply? - [[Hierarchical Organisation]] - [[Ambidextrous Organisations]]