2.3.5 Bureaucratic vs Creative Culture
A bureaucratic culture is a result of a compulsive nodal organisational personality. Compulsive people have a very strong need to control the environment. Such people view things in terms of domination and submission. They behave in a meticulous way and focus on very specific but often trivial details. Compulsive managers are devoted to their work and tend to show deference to those above them and act in autocratic ways towards subordinates. They have strong preferences for well-ordered systems and processes.
In the bureaucratic culture, the concern has more to do with how things look rather than with how things work. Managers focus more on the rules of working together than on the purpose of those rules—achieving ...
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