Departmental Papers (ASC)

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of this Version

6-1960

Publication Source

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volume

5

Issue

1

Start Page

113

Last Page

133

DOI

10.2307/2390827

Abstract

Preliminary observation suggests that the contact between Israeli officials and newly arrived immigrants from traditional societies is considerably less "bureaucratic" than might have been predicted. For example, analysis of several cases of such bureaucrat-client relationships indicates that officials often add the role of teacher to their relatively specific roles as bureaucrats by teaching newcomers how to perform in the role. Moreover, the official often becomes not only a teacher but also a kind of informal leader. This indicates that under certain conditions, formal organizations may give birth to incipient social movements, a direction of organizational change wholly unanticipated in the theoretical literature. The case material is analyzed in terms of (1) a theory of role impingement in which bureaucratic roles are seen to become intertwined with roles that are bureaucratically irrelevant to the conduct of formal organization and (2) a theory of socialization where the official serves as socializing agent for his clients.

Copyright/Permission Statement

The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol 5/Issue 1, 1960, © Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 1960, by SAGE Publications, Inc. at the Administrative Science Quarterly page: http://asq.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/

Comments

This publication comes from a special issue on Comparative Public Administration

Keywords

israel, new immigrants

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Date Posted: 24 February 2010

This document has been peer reviewed.