PROBLEMS &

PROSPECTS OF
BUREAUCRACY ON
NATION BUILDING
Presented by: Maqsood Ahmed
Roll No:MPA-2K23-29
Outline.

▪ Introduction..
▪ Prologue.
▪ Problems .
▪ Reforms& recommendations dations.
▪ Conclusion.
INTRODUCTION OF BUREAUCRACY.

▪ Bureaucracy word is derived from the French word bureau, meaning “writing desk,” and -
cratie, meaning “government.”

▪ A system of organization where decisions are made by a body of non-elected officials.

▪ A bureaucracy is any organization composed of multiple departments, each with policy-
and decision-making authority.

▪ Studying bureaucracy means studying how the State materializes rights and aids the
functioning of society for all citizens.
Prologue to Bureaucracy:

“An institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions
of government fair and predictable”. Max Weber gave this definition in the initial state of this
field but the problem for leaders of governing human systems that grew larger and more
complicated with each passing year and today the term bureaucracy has at least four separate
meanings:

▪ 1. The totality of government offices or bureaus that constitute the permanent government of a
state; that is, those people and functions that continue irrespective of changes in political
leadership.

▪ 2. All of the public officials of a government.

▪ 3. A general invective to refer to any inefficient organization encumbered by red tape.
▪ 4. A specific set of structural arrangements. Bureaucracy is sometimes called the “fourth
branch of government. While technically under control of the executive branch, it sometimes
seems to function as if it had a will, power, and legal authority all its own
Problems of Bureaucracy.

▪ Redtape-ism.
▪ Long hierarchy.
▪ Alienation.
▪ Nepotism.
▪ Political interference.
1-RedTape-ism

▪ Something that takes much longer than it should and involves more procedures, forms, or rules
than make sense.

▪ Examples:
▪ Filling out paperwork.
▪ Obtaining licenses, Passport.
▪ Having multiple people or committees
approve a decision.
Long hierarchy.

▪ There are clearly ordered levels of management, where lower levels are subordinate, or
answerable, to higher levels.

▪ The organization is governed by a set of objective laws, rules and procedures as the basis of
authority and direction.

▪ Examples:
▪ Administration.
▪ Police.
Allenation.

▪ Focusing on the dehumanization of workers and treating them as property.

▪ Assigning workers to meaningless repetitive jobs in order for the company to be more efficient
▪ In capitalism the company owns the workers. In case of communism, in practice it’s not the
company, but the state that owns the workers. And in case of capitalism, those that have the
money own the state.

▪ Ex : March 29 ,2024, Press conference by

Chairmain FPSC.
Nepotism.

▪ Family First, State Last.

▪ Abusing power by promoting close friends on advantageous opportunities.
▪ favoring subordinates by degrading ethical standards, acts as a limitation in the nation's human
development.
Political interference.

▪ Implementing laws, making and enforcing rules when legislative prescriptions are vague, and
settling dispute through administrative adjudication.

▪ • Bureaucracy subsumed within dominant political party.

Reforms/Recommendations.

Step Step Step Step

1 Personal 2 Ethical values
3 Increase 4 Modernizing
Management. accountability. Civil services.

Religious
values.

Cultural
values.
 CONCLUSION.
Epoch of mismanagement, political manipulation and corruption have rendered Pakistan’s civil
service incapable of providing effective governance and basic public services.
The civil bureaucracy’s ills, however, predate military rule. Archaic rules and procedures and a
rigid hierarchical authority structure have undermined its oversight of a public sector that has
expanded considerably since the 1970s. Low salaries, insecure tenure, and obsolete accountability
mechanisms have spawned widespread corruption and impunity. Recruitments, postings and
promotions are increasingly made on the basis of personal contacts and political affiliation, instead
of on merit. The civil service’s falling standards impact mostly Pakistan’s poor, widening social
and economic divisions between the privileged and underprivileged.
results, under-mining local expectations, the hearts and minds of the Pakistani public will likely be
lost rather than won.
THANKS.