re: CPE, Quiz, Bureaucracy? page 3

Given that bureaucracy is held in such ill ---knowledgenamenotorietyrepute today, it is hard to remember that it was once considered a great organisational innovation. By organising the ---detachmentdistinctiondivergencedivision of labour, by making management and decision-making a profession, and by providing order and a set of rules that allowed many different kinds of specialists to work in co-ordination toward a common ---endculminationfinishtermination , bureaucracy greatly extended to the breadth and depth of intelligence that organisations could achieve. Begun as a system of organasing government activities, it has ---spreadtransmittedcaughtcarried to big business and large organisations of all kinds. Max Weber, who ---openedsprangfiredlaunched the systematic study of bureaucracy as its role in western society began to explode in the late nineteeth century, saw bureaucracy as both most efficient possible system, and a threat to the basic liberties he ---feltlovedknewheld dear, thus foreshadowing the sentiments which bureaucracy frequently evokes today.