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Essay / Advantages and Disadvantages of Bureaucracy - 729
First, there could be a drop in employee morale. When jobs and tasks are specialized, they tend to be repetitive. This can often cause boredom for some employees and thus also cause dissatisfaction. Employees are only judged on how well they perform their primary function, not how they do it. With bureaucratic structure, employees can become passive, abandoned, and indifferent to the company's goals. Additionally, a bureaucratic structure is rigid. The rules and regulations of a bureaucratic structure are often rigid. This leads to a lack of initiative and discourages employee creativity, as ideas must pass through multiple levels of the chain of command to be recognized and approved. Furthermore, compartmentalization of activities can also occur in a bureaucratic organization. Jobs are often delegated to specific categories, preventing people from performing tasks that employees are actually capable of performing. It also encourages the preservation of jobs even when they become