bureaucratization
Procedural system growth
Bureaucratization is the process of becoming more bureaucratic—developing rigid hierarchies, formal procedures, and administrative complexity.
Organizations undergo bureaucratization as they grow: The bureaucratization of healthcare has frustrated doctors and patients alike.
The term usually carries negative connotations, implying that rules and paperwork are displacing flexibility and human judgment.
Implementing uniform technical specifications
- codificationOrganizing rules into system
- systematizationCreating ordered structure
- protocolsEstablished codes of conduct
- regimentationStrict systematic control
regularization · conventionality · normative · framework · structuring · rule-making · documentation · uniformity
State-run employment realm
- statecraftArt of government
- centralizationUnifying control in one place
- officialdomCollective administrative authorities
- regulatoryInvolving official oversight
compliance · authority · statism · interventionism · ministerial · federal · municipal · quango
Organizing and directing resources
- governanceHow authority is exercised
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
regulation · implementation · policy · procedures · protocols · workflow · operations · logistics
Administrative written tasks
- delayEnforced waiting period
- obstructionSomething blocking the way
- bottleneckConstriction limiting throughput
- stagnationAbsence of flow or progress
hindrance · impediment · gridlock · quagmire · rubber-stamping · duplication · redundancy · sluggishness
Forming successive strata
- hierarchyRanked authority structure
- subdivisionPortion of something larger
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- overengineeringExcessive unnecessary complexity
elaboration · complication · interconnection · multiplicity · convoluted · intricacy · entanglement · labyrinthine
Quality of being unbending
- formalismPrivileging structure over substance
- strictnessInflexibility in enforcement
- conformityAdherence to norms
- entrenchmentFortified or fixed position
stasis · intransigence · unchangeability · rule-bound · orthodoxy · ossification · sclerosis
standardization
Implementing uniform technical specifications
- codificationOrganizing rules into system
- systematizationCreating ordered structure
- protocolsEstablished codes of conduct
regimentation · regularization · conventionality · normative · framework · structuring · rule-making · documentation · uniformity · institutionalization
public-sector
State-run employment realm
- statecraftArt of government
- centralizationUnifying control in one place
- officialdomCollective administrative authorities
regulatory · compliance · authority · statism · interventionism · ministerial · federal · municipal · quango
management
Organizing and directing resources
- governanceHow authority is exercised
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
supervision · regulation · implementation · policy · procedures · protocols · workflow · operations · logistics · planning
paperwork
Administrative written tasks
- delayEnforced waiting period
- obstructionSomething blocking the way
- bottleneckConstriction limiting throughput
stagnation · hindrance · impediment · gridlock · quagmire · rubber-stamping · duplication · redundancy · sluggishness · backlog
layering
Forming successive strata
- hierarchyRanked authority structure
- subdivisionPortion of something larger
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
overengineering · elaboration · complication · interconnection · multiplicity · convoluted · intricacy · entanglement · labyrinthine
inflexibility
Quality of being unbending
- formalismPrivileging structure over substance
- strictnessInflexibility in enforcement
- conformityAdherence to norms
entrenchment · stasis · intransigence · unchangeability · rule-bound · orthodoxy · ossification · sclerosis
- organizational changemerger, acquisition, restructuring, reorganization, expansion
- formalizationstandardization, codification, systematization, formalization, normalization
- McDonaldizationstandardization, predictability, calculability, control, efficiency
bureaucratizationsimplification
Making something less complex
streamlining · deregulation · downsizing · flattening · rationalization
bureaucratizationdecentralization
Distributing power from center
localization · democratization · informalization · anarchism · laissez-faire
bureaucratizationstreamlining
Making more aerodynamic or efficient
innovation · disruption · nimbleness · flexibility · adaptability
bureau, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, bureaucratic, bureaucrats, bureaucratize, bureaucratized, bureaucratizing, bureaucratically