The social mobility obstacles and its effects on the occupational mobility among government Functionaries and its Consequences

Possibility of free movement of individual and groups from one social status to another which is called social mobility and the possibility of movement of functionaries in the public sector from one status to a higher one which is called occupational mobility usually is faced with some obstacles and difficulties. One of main social and occupational mobility obstacle, which has had consequential effects on the inefficiency of the bureaucracy of the public sector and so on the social development as a whole, has been powerful groups presence in the organizations. These groups usually have rigid structure and are formed around well defined group interests and are penetrated in the sociopolitical structure of the organizations. The present article uncovers the roots of this phenomenon and helps to understand the functions of this group, which can be called caste-like group, and see its destructive negative impacts on the efficiency of governmental organizations.