Professor meyer gives the students in his class a mid-semester feedback survey asking them how stressed out they are by the assignments in his class. the majority of his class report that they feel “extremely stressed.” what might explain this?

an informal structure in a bureaucracy would be something like so-called "office politics". where there's a formal structure set up for the organization, but then an informal subculture as well that has a way of organizing the bureaucracy further. this can be positive because it sets up an added degree of organization, albeit informal, within the bureaucracy.

the octopus by frank norris