Book Reviews: Professionalizing the Organization: Reducing Bureaucracy to Enhance Effectiveness

Why, with so much attention to popular notions of culture and vision, would anyone want to return to the issue of reducing bureaucracy in organizations? Why return to such traditional notions? In his new book, Professionalizing the Bureaucracy: Reducing Bureaucracy to Enhance Effectiveness, Benveniste has successfully returned to several important issues related to the role of professionals in organizations and the ways bureaucracy can support or hinder the effectiveness of individuals in these roles. Such a book could have been an academic