What are the features of bureaucratic leadership style?
• Bureaucratic theory – Founded by Max Weber 1864-1920.
• Bureaucratic leadership is where the manager manages by close adherence to procedure or policy.
• If it isn`t written down in the procedures and policies, the manager refers to the next level above him or her.
• This manager is really more of a police officer than a leader as he or she only enforces the rules.
• An organization is viewed as a type of social relationship that has regulations enforced.
• Has a few people at the top, making decisions and a chain of middle managers and lower-level people below them carrying out specific functions.
• Orders come from top down in a manner mimicking the military creating consistency and precision.
• Rules rather than people form the basis of an organization.
• It is dependent on rules, means – end calculation and matter of facts.

Listen to the video above and study the readings given on this page. Focusing on a named institutional leader, explain how he/she exercises bureaucratic leadership style.

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