Bureaucracy

So far in my life I have worked in four different companies and all of them have been in the form of a bureaucracy.  A bureaucracy is an organization structure with highly routine operating tasks achieved through specialization, very formalized rules and regulations, tasks that are grouped into functional departments, centralized authority, narrow spans of control, and decision making that follows the chain of command.  This is the book's definition and I think that it is very accurate.  Since I have only worked in this type of organization I don't really know how other types of organizations work.  I would like to one day see how other organizations work, but I don't know if I will ever get the chance because I won't to work for the government.  This is definitely a bureaucracy and definitely the most famous one.  I am excited to work in this bureaucracy, but will never know any other form, most likely.