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bureaucratization

bureaucratization

1 8.7
A change in an organization that adds many rules, forms, and levels of managers
  • noun
  • /bjʊəˌrɒkrətaɪˈzeɪʃən/
  • Formal
translation icon : burocratización
  • The bureaucratization of the project resulted in lengthy approval processes and a rigid hierarchy.
  • bureaucratization of sport
  • bureaucratization and centralization
  • amount of bureaucratization

It's, but it's also mass, you know, mass bureaucratization.

Examples

  • Consolidation led to larger schools, more bureaucratization, and the loss of local control, as schools became agents of the state.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The more bureaucratization occurs in sport, the more that sport becomes a part of the larger process of modern rationalization.

    Academic text (1999)
  • As we can see with the example of the addition of fans, the increase in bureaucratization of sport changes the nature of sport enormously.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The result was a rapid professionalization and bureaucratization of the field.

    Academic text (1991)
  • I think the entire post Watergate micro bureaucratization of politics has been a disaster.

  • During the Tanzimat Period, a department of the Chief Mufti was created, which was the first step toward the bureaucratization of religion.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The new administrative class that developed as a result of the growing bureaucratization of industrial life did not fit into the traditional pigeonhole of the American dream.

    Academic text (2001)
  • I suspect that there is a vein of discontent within the profession regarding the objectification and bureaucratization of teaching.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Despite such growing dissatisfactions with commodification and bureaucratization of Danish social life, popular support remained high for a solidaristic welfare state.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Moreover, the combination of extrinsic rewards and the increased emphasis on winning will lead to the increasing bureaucratization of sport (see proposition IV-2).

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

formalization
vsbureaucratization
  • US
1 6.7

To make something official by writing rules or steps

increases layers of management and strict control beyond mere rules

Antonyms

Making rules less strict to allow more trade and travel

Giving local offices and authorities more power to make decisions

How Bureaucratic

bureaucratization
  • Formal
1 8.7
institutionalism
  • Formal
1 8.5
formalization
  • US
1 6.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

bureaucratization = bureaucratic (transparent) = bureaucrat + ic + ization

The meaning is directly recoverable as the state or process of becoming bureaucratic, using a regular English nominalizing suffix.

Etymology

Bureaucratization comes from the French word bureau meaning 'desk' or 'office' and the ending -ization meaning 'the process of making into'. So, bureaucratization is the process of turning an organization into one run by offices, rules, and officials, which is why it often brings more paperwork and slower decisions.