toward the machine bureaucracy structure regard. less of their other conditions, The problems of the machine bureaucracy are legendary-dull and repetitive work, alienated cm ployees, obsession with control (of markets as well massive size, and inadaptability. These as workers) are machines suited to specific purposes, not to adapting to new ones. For all of these reasons, the machine bureaucracy is no longer fashionable. Bureaucracy has become a dirty word.