The Guide!
Title
The Guide!
Description
First photo: In this cartoon we see a Mertonian bureaucratic personality emerge as a result of overemphasizing the importance of rules in sustaining the need for reliability, predictability and discipline in organizational processes and procedures. Such bureaucrats in time tend to “forget the initial reason for the rules, and, in a ‘displacement of goals,’ enforcement of the rules surpasses in importance in a bureaucrat’s mind what the organization is trying ultimately to achieve” (Goodsell, 1994, p. 116). “An extreme product of this process of displacement of goals is the bureaucratic virtuoso, who never forgets a single rule binding his action and hence is unable to assist many of his clients” (Merton, 1940, pp. 560-568).
Second photo: Poet: Tumarinson, G. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1969
Whenever bureaucrat decides to take a sweeping action,
Any endeavor’s doomed to end in failure and frustration!"
Second photo: Poet: Tumarinson, G. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1969
Whenever bureaucrat decides to take a sweeping action,
Any endeavor’s doomed to end in failure and frustration!"
Creator
Rabinovich, Y. - First photo; Tsvetkov, A. - Second photo
Date
1969 - first photo; 1965 - second photo
Source
Rutgers, Chatham House, & Harcourt Brace
Relation
Rights
Source: Holzer, M., Illiash, I., Gabrielian, V., & Kuznestsova, L. (2010). Red Tape from Red Square:Bureaucratic Commentary in Soviet Graphic Satirical Art. Poughkeepsie, NY: NetPublicaions
Goodsell, Ch. T. (1994). The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic. 3rd Ed. Chatham, NJ: ChathamHouse Publishers, Inc.
Merton, R.K. (1940). Bureaucratic Structure and Personality. In: Shafritz, J. M., and A. C. Hyde (Eds.) (1997). Classics of Public Administration. FortWorth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
Goodsell, Ch. T. (1994). The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic. 3rd Ed. Chatham, NJ: ChathamHouse Publishers, Inc.
Merton, R.K. (1940). Bureaucratic Structure and Personality. In: Shafritz, J. M., and A. C. Hyde (Eds.) (1997). Classics of Public Administration. FortWorth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
Publisher
Rutgers, Chatham House, & Harcourt Brace
Contributor
Rutgers, Chatham House, & Harcourt Brace
Format
Medium: Poster
Language
Russian
Type
Artwork
Identifier
Art, Satire, Cartoons, Rules, Organizations, Bureaucracy, The Fighting Pencil
Coverage
Russia
Files
Reference
Rabinovich, Y. - First photo; Tsvetkov, A. - Second photo, The Guide!, Rutgers, Chatham House, & Harcourt Brace, 1969 - first photo; 1965 - second photo
Cite As
Rabinovich, Y. - First photo; Tsvetkov, A. - Second photo, “The Guide!,” Virtual Museum of Public Service, accessed March 28, 2024, https://vmps.omeka.net/items/show/481.