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> it's objective will shift to the survival of the organization itself when the original (legitimate) objective is made irrelevant by internal or external facto
by cabalamat 5y ago
> it's objective will shift to the survival of the organization itself when the original (legitimate) objective is made irrelevant by internal or external factors
Yes, and also the furtherance of the careers of the top people.
- hef19898 5y agoAnd the less actual stuff said organization has to do, the worse it gets.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoThe better is gets - more time for career manoeuvring
- hef19898 5y agoAnd without the need of any domain knowledge or any other skills!
- cabalamat 5y agoPournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people": First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration. Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc. -- https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
- hef19898 5y agoI never worked directly for an official bureaucracy, just indirectly. I have to say so, you find the same kind of people in all organizations being large enough to need more than one pizza to feed everyone.