... main strength; its ability to focus on work that needs to be completed without the distraction of personal consideration is uncompromising compared with other organisational structures. It is true that bureaucracy can evolve and become a personification of a slow, inefficient, unproductive machine or robot, an un-motivating place to work where employees are restricted to become cogs in the machine, thereby destroying innovation and personal development. To fully understand the organisational structure that is bureaucracy we need to look at its original conception, subsequently we can look at its perceived advantages and dysfunctions. Several theorists have made major contributions to the theories of bureaucracies. The classic theories of bureaucracy were formulated by Max Weber, Robert Michels, Bruno Rizzi, Karl Marx and elaborating on Marx's work, Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) and Vladimir Ilycih Lenin. Among these theorists, Max Weber has made the biggest impact. Weber's landmark contribution was made in his Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, which in turn was originally published in Grundriss der Sozialoekonomik (Henderson and Parsons, ...

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