Characteristics of the Modern Bureaucracy Discuss your view about the modern bur

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Characteristics of the Modern Bureaucracy

Discuss your view about the modern bureaucracy, particularly regarding the size of the bureaucracy, its role in daily public life, and characteristics of the civil service workforce. In particular, discuss whether it should be easier to hire and terminate civil servants based on their performance, and whether high-performing civil servants should receive merit-based compensation similar to their counterparts in the private sector. In addition, speculate about differences between the private sector and the public sector, and to discuss which characteristics of the private sector could be imported into the public sector to improve performance and quality.

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Modern bureaucracy is huge in size and complexity. Bureaucracies are found at different levels of government including federal, state, county and municipal levels. It is very crucial to bring about control in the government operations. At present, bureaucracy includes four characteristics including formal hierarchy, division of labor, specialization, as well as a set of formal rules. Bureaucracy plays a very significant role in the daily life of people as in daily basis they needs to interact with managers, executives or staffs of the government agencies.

Key characteristics of the Civil Service workforce are given below:

Following characteristics of the private sector could be imported into the public sector to improve performance and quality:

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