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Write short note: Informal structure of Bureaucracy.

  • UPSC 2001, 1992
  • Politics and Society

The formal structure of a bureaucracy is its official blueprint: offices, rules, hierarchy and channels of communication, the features of Max Weber's ideal type. The informal structure is the network of personal relations, unwritten norms, cliques, informal leaders and unofficial practices that grows inside that blueprint. It is not an aberration. Every formal organisation generates…

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