The layoffs mark the second round of mass cuts at Amazon since last October, when the company laid off roughly 14,000 ...

For many people, the term "bureaucracy" has unfashionable negative connotations. It can conjure up images of excessive paperwork and pointless processes. At its worst, it embodies the truly Kafkaesque ...

I recently encountered an organization where succession planning - the hiring of a new Chief Operating Officer - was completely held up because the Human Resources department had not received a ...

Gary Hamel is a visiting professor at London Business School and the founder of the Management Lab. He is a coauthor of Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them ...

I recently encountered an organization where succession planning - the hiring of a new Chief Operating Officer - was completely held up because the Human Resources department had not received a ...

Do you find your organization bogged down by overcomplicated policies and procedures? Did the Excel sheet that worked just fine when you were a single-person operation balloon into a swamp of tabs and ...

Bureaucracy within business is a tale as old as time. It’s how organizations fuel their decision-making processes to ensure time is invested in the right areas, at the right time and driving the best ...

The company added that it will continue to hire and invest in areas of strategic interest, despite undertaking massive ...

For over half a century scholars have considered the “bureaucratic personality” (Merton 1940), a concept synonymous with rigid rule following to overcome organizational alienation and powerlessness ...

My first real experience with government bureaucracy was 60 years ago when I joined the U.S. Army Reserve. We were hustled into a room at old Fort Dix to be given our uniforms. Half of the troops were ...