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Now what is bureaucratic management? People often confuse
bigness with bureaucracv'. Even such an eminent man as Max Weber
[1864-1920] thought that the essential faaor of a buiraucracy u-as that
people sat at desks and had a lot of paperwxsrk to do. But this is not the
essential feature of a bureaucracv-. The charactensnc of a bureaucracv' is that
it deals with things which are necessary but which cannot be sold and
that do not have a price on the market. Such a thing, for instance, is the
protection of individuals against gangsters and other criminals. This is
the job of the police department. It is \rry- important, indispensable. But
the services of the police department cannot be sold on the market.
Therefore, you cannot judge the results of these police operaoons in the
same way as you can judge the operaootis of a shoe factorv'. The shoe
factory can say, "The public approvrs of our operaaons because %%t make
profits." The police department can onK- vi>' the pubbc approsrs thixHigh
the actions of its to\%-n council, congrr%s. parliament, and so on.Thercfbir.
the system of nunagement which must be used for a pohce sN-stem is the
bureaucratic s\-stem.
The nation, or the citizenrv'. elects parliamentary* bodies and these
parliameniarv- bodies determine how much should be spent for the various
functions of the goxrrnmcnt. including the pohce department You canni>t
evaluate in dollars and pennies the mults ot' a pohce department
And. therefore. vx>u canmx havr b*H>kkeeping and auditing of a police
department in the same way \xy\i d*» in private businewes In private
businesses, the expenses are measured in terms of doUan agaiml the
proceeds. In the police department vx>u canno« measurr the expense*
against the pnKeed* The p*>lKc department has onK expenses The
"pnuccds" ot J pr imtarKe. the tact that >xhi can
walk satcly thn>ugh the ttmn. rvrn after midniichi Such pfoccedi cannot
be evaluated in terms at mt>ne\
Ihc parliaments vet the budget ft>f the police department; thes
dctcrmiiK- the amount of nuuies to be *penc rhe>- must alu> tell the pt>lKc
dcpartinciit what \ervicr\ thrv should perlorm The Mil couUl no doubt
he iiupnncd b\- increa\ing it\ appn>prutiom. but it is the wiU ol the pe«>ple
that It not gt^ any further, the head ot the Department o4 juUKC tells thr
FBI what to do and what not la do. the Department ol juscue head cannot
leave thc\e dcciMoiu ti> the "branch nunagers " Therrtocr. the marufcer of
a bureaucratic opcratu»n iwur* itutruitions i>n man>- things whKh appear
unncccs\arv to the buMtiewman— h*TW often to clean the offices. h