Query: bureaucracy career concept

title: Bureaucracy: The Career of a Concept

title: Bureaucracy The Career of a Concept
abstract: Bureaucracy The Career of a Concept is for the most part Krygier's doctoral thesis in the history of ideas, "Marxism and Bureaucracy." Krygier's chapters, the core of the book, proceed as follows. First, bureaucracy is placed in its etymological and organizational contexts. The concept is then pursued through Saint Simon and Marx, Weber and Lenin, and Trotsky and the theorists of the new class. Saint Simon is introduced as the first of the technocrats, whose approach to politics will haunt Bolshevism: politics reduces to organization, literally, to technique. Krygier's view of Marx is inconclusive. Marxism has never really had a theory of the state; its fundamentalist attitude insured that all conflicts were to be read back to production relations.

title: Bureaucracy The career of a concept: Robert Brown, Eugene Kamenka, Martin Krygier and Alice Erh Soon Tay (London: Edward Arnold, 1979) pp. 165, PS7.50, PB PS3.25

title: Street level Bureaucracy and Social Policy in Brazil.
abstract: This paper describes the Brazilian central government bureaucracy and people with disabilities' access to the Continuous Cash Benefit (BPC) This access depends on the Ministry of Social Security bureaucracy's evaluation of the condition of vulnerability. We performed a literature review, analysis of secondary data from time series and cross sectional data to describe street level federal bureaucracy. Legal documents and indicators describe the expert evaluation regimen of the Ministry of Social Security (MPS) This paper shows the uneven growth of the number of career public servants of the central government in the last two decades. The Brazilian central government has adopted the international concept of person with disabilities in the evaluation of BPC applicants. Despite this decision, it is shown that the Brazilian central government expanded selectively the career bureaucracy to work in the social area. It was found that the result of the evaluation process was quite strict, favoring applicants in conditions of extreme biomedical vulnerability. Despite adopting the social model, BPC eligibility is tied to medical diagnosis.

title: National Capital Bureaucracy as a Spatial Phenomenon
abstract: Emphasizing bureaucracy as a communicative phenomenon involving localized knowledge or metis this article examines the place of the national capital city of Australia, Canberra, within the geographies of the Australian Public Service. First, drawing on research into knowledge clusters, the city is viewed as a key place of certain forms of communicative interaction. Second, drawing on the concept of metis, Canberra is discussed as a place potentially out of touch with the rest of Australia in terms of this form of knowledge but also as an essential site of accumulating metis essential to career progression within the national bureaucracy.

title: Gender and Lowi's Thesis: Implications for Career Advancement
abstract: Representative bureaucracy and female parity at all levels in public organizations are attainable yet unrealized goals. Many years have elapsed since the passage of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action legislation, yet women continue to be underrepresented at the top of the organizational hierarchy. Frederickson's (1990) compound theory of social equity delineates organizational equality into block and segmented. Block equality is a holistic approach to the concept of equality that views overall representational concerns among groups within an organization. Segmented equality views representation at various levels within the organization. Upper level management positions in state governments are one such level, or segment. Although block equality has been achieved, segmented equality remains elusive. Women continue to be compressed into the lower levels of public agencies, and concentrated into traditionally defined "female type" occupations; in other words, under glass ceilings and within glass walls. Although women fill 46 percent of federal white collar jobs, they hold only 15 percent of GM 13 to GM 15 positions Lewis, 1990) At the top of the federal government hierarchy, women hold only 12 percent of the Senior Executive Service positions (U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, 1992) Women fare somewhat better at the state government level. According to a recent study by Bullard and Wright (1993) 20 percent of executives in state governments are women. An ongoing empirical study organized by Kelly addresses a number of issues related to the integration of women into the managerial ranks of state government administrations (Kelly et al, 1991) To date, the study has been undertaken in seven states (Arizona, Texas, California, Alabama, Wisconsin, Utah, and Florida) The proportion of women in the upper management levels of these seven state governments ranges from 13 percent in the Arizona civil service, to 25 percent in Texas. In reviewing the current literature, a common theme emerges; a search for responses to the question, What variables should we manipulate to improve the status of women in public administration? Variables may be clustered into three categories: human capital variables, sociopsychological variables, and systemic variables (Newman, 1993) Human capital barriers are identified as insufficient education, dysfunctional choices, domestic constraints, limited financial resources, and insufficient experience. Social psychological barriers include sex role socialization, sex role stereotypes/role prejudice, negative perceptions of women's capacity for managing, questionable motivation, and limiting self concepts. Systemic barriers manifest themselves as sex segregation in the labor force, differential career ladder opportunities, sex segregation of domestic labor, limited access to professional training, limited access to informal networks, lack of mentors, veterans preference, lack of power, sexual harassment, perceived lack of compatibility, and the lack of female role models for women. In each category, the unit of analysis is the individual. Manipulation of these variables results in prescriptive policies aimed at lowering or removing these barriers. This approach is valid, yet incomplete. Using the nature of organizations as the unit of analysis allows us to view the problem through a different lens. In the process, a more fundamental question arises. Are all organizations created equal? In other words, do opportunity structures differ according to an agency's mission? Are some agencies more conducive to women's career advancement than others? In seeking a response to these questions, I examined the nature of organizations from a theoretical standpoint. A case study of the state of Florida Senior Management Service executives underscores the implications of theory in practice in terms of work experiences and structures of opportunity.

title: Instantaneas de un burocrata cultural: el oficio de promover el teatro durante "el milagro mexicano"
abstract: El articulo aborda la gestion de Miguel Alvarez Acosta en la Direccion de Relaciones Culturales de la Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (sre) de Mexico (1959 1970) Se analiza su relacion con los artistas, asi como sus ideas acerca del teatro y la cultura en el contexto del "milagro mexicano" (1940 1968) Para ello, el texto usa la categoria de burocracia cultural y la vincula con las discusiones sobre caciquismo e intermediacion. La principal conclusion es que el trabajo de Alvarez Acosta por un teatro moderno obedecia a las reglas del juego politicas, que consistian en una mezcla de racionalizacion burocratica, nacionalismo y clientelismo. The article analyzes the career of Miguel Alvarez Acosta during his tenure as the Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary (sre) (1959 1970) in the office of Cultural Relations. His relationships with the artists and his ideas about art and culture are explored in depth and contextualized within "the Mexican miracle" (1940 1968) This essay employs the concept of cultural bureaucracy and ties it to discussions about bossism and broker mediation. The main conclusion is that Alvarez Acosta's support for a modern theater was bound to the rules of political games; a blend of bureaucratic rationalization, nationalism and clientelism.

title: Where's the evidence? Obstacles to impact gathering and how researchers might be better supported in future
abstract: Despite the increased importance of demonstrating impact, it remains a concept many academics feel ill equipped to measure or evidence. Clare Wilkinson reveals how researchers from a broad range of disciplines think about evidencing impact, what obstacles might stand in their way, and how they might be further supported in future. Knowledge around research impact continues to exist in siloes, with those at early career stages often less clear about it. Researchers are eager to see best practice examples and information on the types of evidence that could be collected, but are less receptive to support mechanisms that more obviously add to bureaucracy. Interestingly, academics rarely consider how their own research backgrounds, methodologies, and tools may feature in their impact activities.

title: The career motivation of female executives in the Hong Kong public sector
abstract: Reports a study of female executives (n 30) working in the public sector in Hong Kong. The research captures a set of organisational practices in transition: from a colonial to a post colonial setting, and from a bureaucracy that offered jobs for life to one that offers them on contract terms. The concept of career motivation is explored in the study through three dimensions of career resilience, career insight, and career identity. Overall, younger executives (n 19) had higher levels of career motivation and were striving to attain additional responsibility and authority in work assignments, while senior executives (n 11) were concerned with holding on to their previous accomplishments and competence in their occupational role. Moreover, the more ambiguity and uncertainty existing in the government office, the lesser the levels of career motivation. The results and their implications for future studies of career motivation are discussed.

title: The power of bureaucracy [Book Review]
abstract: Review(s) of: Bureaucracy; The career of a concept, Edited by Eugene Kamenka and Martin Krygier, Edward Arnold, (Australia) 1979.  2037 2.