Authority in Bureaucratic Organization (Ch 9)

Starting a new job is so fascinating for so many reasons. When I join a new team, I have a new way of looking at things. Sometimes this “new way” is encouraged, sometimes not. Questioning existing processes is often not encouraged. When I started my last job, my manager asked me to run a couple of reports once a month. I asked him who read the information and in what way the information provided helped in making decision. He could not answer. All he told me was that needed to do it because the person before me did it and that was the end of the conversation.