ABSTRACT
With the modern technology of communication and information management, bureaucracy is thus bound to increase irrespective of the particular operational tasks for whose management the bureaucracy is instituted. This chapter discusses four significantly problematic issues: complexity escalation, obscurity of consequences and cognitive chaos, concretization quandaries and decision gridlock and immobilization. This condition of affairs has substantial and significant implications for the general polity of social decision. In the course of scientific and technical progress, the management of complexity calls for ever greater sophistication, and thus in turn imposes problems of decision in the face of exploding information. The level of complexity management they are able to achieve is determined through—and thus limited by—the levels of ingenuity and conceptual adequacy of their programming. Complexity generally enlarges the prospect of system failure—and where not in frequency, there in magnitude of effect.
