Abstract :
Bureaucracy, theoretically introduced by Max Weber, is a concept with a slew of definitions. Thus, it is defined as the rule of tables and offices, state office, bureau or agency where civil servants work, rational organization, inefficiency and mismanagement, public administration, rule by civil servants, and large-scale organizations and modern society. Bureaucracy is usually employed as a pejorative concept used to describe negative aspects of organization and abuse of official authority, and unfavorable behaviors such as evasion of responsibility, reluctance to hand over authority, and excessive dependence on authority are given as examples of bureaucracy. For Weber, who sought to depict an ideal form of bureaucracy by specifying its determinant attributes and key elements instead of defining it, bureaucracy is a hierarchical, ordered, and contemporary form of organization, indispensable to political systems, where duties and powers are specified in advance, and which have certain features such as impersonality, reliance on written rules and division between the public and private spheres. For Weber, bureaucracy is not a form of government, but an organization where tasks are performed by professional officials in compliance with written rules. Accordingly, bureaucracy is a social stage which entails disciplined administration of large groups within the framework of division of labor, specialization, organization, hierarchical structure, and planning. Weber saw bureaucracy as a rational form of organization, technically superior to other forms of organization. Turkish public administration, marred with structural problems, namely centralization, organization growth, secrecy and isolation in government, and conservatism and failure to keep with changes in administration and functional problems such as formalism and evasion of responsibility, politicization in administration, execution through agents, and corruption, and as such, it is hardly capable of providing quality, rapid, rational, effective and efficient services.
