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  2. Informal organization - Wikipedia

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    The informal organization is the interlocking social structure that governs how people work together in practice. [1] It is the aggregate of norms, personal and professional connections through which work gets done and relationships are built among people who share a common organizational affiliation or cluster of affiliations.

  3. Formal organization - Wikipedia

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    Formal rules are often adapted to subjective interests—social structures within an enterprise and the personal goals, desires, sympathies and behaviors of the individual workers—so that the practical everyday life of an organization becomes informal. Practical experience shows no organization is ever completely rule-bound: instead, all real ...

  4. The Functions of the Executive - Wikipedia

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    The book's second part concerns "The Theory and Structure of Formal Organizations." Pages 65–81 contain Chapter VI, "The Definition of Formal Organization." In the chapter, Barnard defines "formal organization" twice as "a system of consciously coordinated activities or forces of two or more persons."

  5. Organizational structure - Wikipedia

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    Further, the informal organization, which is the structure of social interactions that emerges within organizations, may be subject to restrictions also tends to lag in its integration into the newly established formal organisation, whereas formal organization or the subjective norms system created by managers can be changed relatively quickly ...

  6. Organizational theory - Wikipedia

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    In Chester Barnard's book The Functions of the Executive, formal organization is defined as "a system of contributors' activities that are consciously coordinated by the organization's purpose." This differs from informal organization, such as a human group, that consists of individuals and their interactions, but do not require these to be ...

  7. Organization - Wikipedia

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    As most organizations operate through a mix of formal and informal mechanisms, organization science scholars have paid attention to the type of interplay between formal and informal organizations. On the one hand, some have argued that formal and informal organizations operate as substitutes as one type of organization would decrease the ...

  8. Organizational communication - Wikipedia

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    Organizational communication extensively covers what communication techniques are appropriate and effective in specific scenarios with a focus on effective management. [17] Informal and formal communication are both essential to an organization’s inner workings, but must be used appropriately.

  9. Organizational culture - Wikipedia

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    They reflect a long-standing tension between cultural and structural (or informal and formal) versions of organizations. Further, it is reasonable to suggest that complex organizations might have many cultures, and that such sub-cultures might overlap and contradict each other.