Government

Tasks of Bureaucrats

Bureaucracy refers to an organisation or a set of organisations designed to carry out a specialized set of tasks,often on a massive scale. Bureaucrats are people who work in bureaucracies. Tasks that are entrusted to bureaucrats range from simple administrative ones, such as typing or…

Role of Bureaucracy in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a democratic country. In a democratic country ministers are considered to execute almost all the policies.But in general, ministers may not be expert administrative.Most of them do not have the knowledge of administrative process and details. As a result most of them can not…

Is hierarchy good for bureaucracy or organization in the age of technology?

I have no clear idea about bureaucracy, as we have a course called Public Administration, so we learn about bureaucracy.
The bureaucracy may have good side or bad side, but I am not going to discuss…

Bangladeshi Bureaucrats:Are They Actually Public Servants?

Better-Trained Officials, Less Tricked Citizens

When we talk about weber’s characteristics of bureaucracy, we assume these are the ideal one as they reveal a condition of balance in both public and private affairs within a modern state. And one of the characteristics weber expressed was the…

New Public Management & Bangladesh

Bangladesh inherited its civil service from Pakistan which was the descendent of Indian civil service. Indian civil service was formed and shaped by the British during their rule in the subcontinent. Bangladesh from the beginning of independence realized the…

How “ideal” is the Bangladeshi bureaucracy?

I don’t have much firsthand experience with the bureaucracy so I decided to ask my relatives about their experiences. I will be sharing two of those stories. In my discussion, I will be comparing the two and will mainly base it on how it deviates from…