Your professor receives a promotion when she publishes a journal article within her body of expertise, instead of the promotion going to the department chair's brother-in-law who used to be a cashier but could really use the money. This illustrates which characteristic of a bureaucracy?
A. hierarchy of authority
B. division of labor
C. employment based on technical qualifications
D. impersonality
Answer: C
You might also like to view...
Persons who listen to country music have higher suicide rates
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Estate systems of stratification have only two classes
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to Berger and Luckmann, typificatory schemes refer
a. to a wholly subjective state that functions as the genesis of human consciousness. b. to patterns of apprehension in terms of which face-to-face encounters are structured. c. to well-defined, rigid forms of interaction. d. to participants’ attempts to construct their social world in highly unique ways.
Research indicates that problems are most likely when retirement from sport
A. is forced on an athlete because of injury. B. is related to a general loss of skills that comes with age. C. forces a person to develop interests outside of sports. D. comes in connection with changes in an athlete's life.