NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Demerits of Bureaucracy
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- Its standardization led to suppression of creativity and initiative.
- The impersonality of conduct produces specialists without spirit.
- Bureaucrats soon became preoccupied with, and dependent on the security provided by, uniformity and order.
- Bureaucrats soon get trapped in the monotony of their specialized routine with little awareness of the overall organization.
- Since bureaucracy is trained to follow orders, it could be directed towards any ends.
- Since they are trained to conduct routine of operations they would be ineffective in times of crisis.
- Top bureaucrats are likely to be swayed by pressures of capitalist interests.
- Vis-a-vis the layman, the practical master; bureaucrats are experts. So they can control the former.