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'The bureaucratic model of organisation has been revealed as increasingly limited and has been replaced by alternative and more effective forms.' Discuss. In order to answer the question we will initially need to define bureaucracy and draw up a set of characteristics that represent the bureaucratic model of organisations. We will do this by looking at the boom period of bureaucratic growth in organisations in the nineteenth century, primarily through the analyses of Max Weber. At its most basic, bureaucracy can be seen as the division of labour, which has certainly been a feature of enterprises connected with power in many civilisations for thousands of years. However, the most significant developments in this area took place in the nineteenth century, coinciding with the growth of capitalism as the dominant ideology driving institutions and economies. Weber sees the growth of capitalism in the nineteenth century as the catalyst for the growth...

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