bureaucratic

Anything bureaucratic has to do with the business of running an organization — usually not in a very
efficient manner.
If there are bureaucrats or a bureaucracy involved, go ahead and call itbureaucratic. This adjective is
used in a negative sense to describe a person or organization more concerned with following
procedures than being guided by common sense. Bureaucratic things usually involve loads of
paperwork and nonsensical rules, otherwise known as "red tape" — a connection that originated in
the 17th century when official documents were bound together with actual red tape.

The nature of bureaucracy in the philippines

1. 1. NATURE OF PHILIPPINES BUREAUCRACY

2. 2. A POLITICAL SYSTEM DEFINES ITS BUREAUCRACY:  a system of
administration based upon organization into bureaus, division of labor,
hierarchy of authority; designed to dispose of a large body of work in a
routine manner.
3. 3. IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS OF PHILIPPINES BUREAUCRACY 1.
Vulnerability to nepotism. Under Philippine bureaucracy substructure
of small kinship groups, members of the family groups by consanguinity,
by affinity, and by ritual kinship (or compadre) give top priority to family
loyalty. Within such groupings, all of them feel that they are under
obligation to help each other in a variety of ways.
4. 4. Perpetuation of the spoils system Classify service, unclassified
and temporary positions which have become convenient instruments
for the practice of nepotism, of patronage, and of influence peddling.
5. 5. Apathetic public reaction of bureaucratic misconduct The people
looked upon the phenomenon as a concomitant result of the increasing
complexity of the government, a method of political promises to the
unemployed and underemployed segments of the population
6. 6. Availability of external peaceful means of correcting bureaucratic
weakness Devices, such as constitutional right and privileges-freedom
of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, civic action-have
been used for rectifying the defects and misdeeds of bureaucracy.
7. 7. Survival of historical experience The Philippine political
bureaucracy was administered according to a civil law system which
the Spanish bureaucracy as the scapegoat for all the weaknesses of the
Philippines political bureaucracy. There are indications, however that
the weaknesses are not to be totally and directly attributed to the
Spanish government bureaucracy.
8. 8. Lack of independence from politics Because of the absences of
“class consciousness” and of a feeling of unity on the part of the
Filipino bureaucrats and the stigma of post-World War II ill-repute, the
Philippine bureaucracy’s “merit system” was easily subject to attack
and tampering by politicians. They worked through the legislative and
executive branches of the national government.
9. 9. Essential instrument of social change In spite of its weaknesses,
the Philippine bureaucracy’s function in nation-building will be as big,
as complicated, and as demanding as the function of the whole society
itself. Primarily, it will have to be a tool for innovations.
10. 10. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE PHILIPPINE BUREAUCRACY 
Bureaucratic resistance to change  Socio-economic, political, cultural
and ecological constraints to administrative change  Problems in the
transfer of technology and adaptation
11. 11. TYPES OF BEHAVIOR OF THE PHILIPPINE BUREAUCRACY 
Conformity to policies  Preference toward continuity  Loss of self-
assertion  Politically supportive