Bureaucracy and Development Administration

Bureaucracy is a difficult term to define. It means different things to different people. there are almost as many definitions of bureaucracy as there are writers on the subject who emphasise different aspects of bureaucracy. As such there is no terminological accuracy about the concept of bureaucracy. Some equate bureaucracy with efficiency and others with inefficiency. To some, it is a term synonymous with civil service and four others it refers to a body of officials. But basically, bureaucracy is a systematic organisation of tasks and individuals into a pattern, which most effectively achieves the desirable ends of such collective effort.