Bureaucracy and Behaviour in Organizations: A Study of the Nigerian Context
Abstract
This paper examined and analyzed the impact of bureaucracy on behaviour in Nigerian organizations. It discussed the major challenges hindering bureaucracy in Nigeria from attaining efficiency in operations as well as in implementation of formulated policies in organizations. The paper notes that bureaucracy in Nigeria has failed and is besotted with multiple challenges and structural defects which have resulted to operational inefficiency, and dismal and poor quality service delivery. The paper pointed out that employee’s poor attitudes to work are as a result of poorly structured institution/organizations which stifle personal initiatives, ideas and creativities, but encourages delay, rigidity, subjection to rules and weak leadership attitudes. The paper concludes that the successful implementation of efficient bureaucracy in Nigeria is dicey and unless the problems associated with Nigeria bureaucratic setup are critically addressed, inefficiency and unproductiveness will continue to go hand in hand with bureaucracy in Nigeria. Additionally, this paper notes that an organization internal structure contributes to explaining and predicting behavours of its members as structure that accommodates flexibility and subordinate’s initiatives and involvement can shape employee’s attitude and facilitates and motivates them to ‘tune up’ to acceptable behaviours which results to enhanced organizational performance and efficiency. Suggestions were also offered for effective repositioning of the system in Nigeria in order to achieve the desired effectiveness and efficiency of the system.
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