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machine bureaucracy  

Definition

  • A machine bureaucracy describes a form of organization in which the prime coordinating mechanism in the design of the organization is the standardization of work processes. The key features of a machine bureaucracy include design based on vertical and horizontal job specialization, functional grouping of activities, vertical centralization, limited horizontal decentralization, and efforts to sustain behavior formalization. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Machine Bureaucracy]

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