1. NATURE OF
PHILIPPINES
BUREAUCRACY

3. A POLITICAL SYSTEM DEFINES ITS
BUREAUCRACY:
 a system of administration based upon
organization into bureaus, division of
labor, hierarchy of authority; designed to
dispose of a large body of work in a
routine manner.

5. IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS OF
PHILIPPINES BUREAUCRACY
1. Vulnerability to nepotism.
Under Philippine bureaucracy
substructure of small kinship
groups, members of the family groups by
consanguinity, by affinity, and by ritual
kinship (or compadre) give top priority to
family loyalty.
Within such groupings, all of them feel
that they are under obligation to help
each other in a variety of ways.

7. Perpetuation of the spoils system
Classify service, unclassified and
temporary positions which have
become convenient instruments for the
practice of nepotism, of patronage, and
of influence peddling.

9. Apathetic public reaction of
bureaucratic misconduct
The people looked upon the phenomenon
as a concomitant result of the increasing
complexity of the government, a method of
political promises to the unemployed and
underemployed segments of the
population

11. Availability of external peaceful
means of correcting bureaucratic
weakness
Devices, such as constitutional right and
privileges-freedom of speech, freedom of
the press, freedom of assembly, civic
action-have been used for rectifying the
defects and misdeeds of bureaucracy.

13. Survival of historical experience
The Philippine political bureaucracy was
administered according to a civil law
system which the Spanish bureaucracy as
the scapegoat for all the weaknesses of
the Philippines political bureaucracy. There
are indications, however that the
weaknesses are not to be totally and
directly attributed to the Spanish
government bureaucracy.

15. Lack of independence from politics
Because of the absences of “class
consciousness” and of a feeling of unity on
the part of the Filipino bureaucrats and the
stigma of post-World War II ill-repute, the
Philippine bureaucracy’s “merit system”
was easily subject to attack and tampering
by politicians. They worked through the
legislative and executive branches of the
national government.

17. Essential instrument of social
change
In spite of its weaknesses, the Philippine
bureaucracy’s function in nation-building
will be as big, as complicated, and as
demanding as the function of the whole
society itself. Primarily, it will have to be a
tool for innovations.

18. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE PHILIPPINE
BUREAUCRACY
 Bureaucratic resistance to change
 Socio-economic, political, cultural and
ecological constraints to administrative
change
 Problems in the transfer of technology and
adaptation

19. TYPES OF BEHAVIOR OF
THE PHILIPPINE BUREAUCRACY
 Conformity to policies
 Preference toward continuity
 Loss of self-assertion
 Politically supportive

20. THANK YOU!
Facilitator: Ms. Ethel-Veda S. Gadiano