A Multidimensional Approach toward a Typology of Bureaucracy.

This study reformulates and measures variables defining bureaucracy and presents a multidimensional method for classifying bureaucratic patterns. The empirical data were collected in 30 industrial plants. The Guttman-Lingoes multidimensional scab gram analysis-I program was employed for establishing the typology, and six bureaucratic types have been identified: rudimentary, interpersonal, emergent, balanced, technical, and managerial. No claim is made for the exhaustiveness of the typology, but only for the usefulness of the approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]