Bureaucratization of non-governmental organizations: an analysis of employees perceptions and attitudes
The key concern of the following article is to measure empirically the extent to which non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are bureaucratized. The perceptions of the employees of the NGOs were elicited about the characteristics of bureaucracy. Interval scale data on respondent perceptions were analysed through step-wide regression. The statistical analysis does not reveal any specific directionality. Instead, it shows a complicated set of relationship between each of eight characteristics of bureaucracy (dependent variables) on the one hand and the multitude of independent variables on the other. It can be inferred from the data and regression results that the bureaucratic characteristics of NGOs have no