... the 650 or so, of the top grades of senior civil servants. They are the secretaries, deputy-secretaries and under-secretaries. It is this group of people who run the service and interact with ministers giving advice on policy making. Furthermore, "Members of the civil service are responsible for the public administration of the government of a country" (Collins, 1992). All institutions in Britain have a bureaucratic structure in a general sense. Bureaucrats within the institution organize the activities so that the institutions can function efficiently. According to Weber, "bureaucracy is necessary for the development of the modern world" (Robertson, 1986). Weber believed that bureaucracy was necessary due to the division of labour; the constant division of specialist skills. Bureaucracy is, he argued, the organisational principle of modern life - not just one way of organising an industrial society but the only way (Gamble, 1991). The civil service is the body that ...

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