{"id":4237,"date":"2021-09-13T05:48:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T05:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tutorsindia.com\/blog\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2024-09-02T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T10:12:23","slug":"formal-and-informal-organizational-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tutorsindia.com\/blog\/formal-and-informal-organizational-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Formal and Informal Organizational Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

For the past four decades, organizational scholars have been repetitively called for to integrate two contrasting, but compatible, concepts of intra-organizational structure. Basically, organizational structure <\/a>is categorized into Formal and Informal structure. Formal organizational structure is generally based on formally defined roles and responsibilities. Further, informal organizational structure often termed as \u201csocial\u201d or \u201cnetwork\u201d structure\u00a0 and is based on interactions of repeated pattern (Hunter, 2015; McEvily et al., 2014).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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In an organizational setting, the formal structures generally contain communication and a chain of authority.\u00a0 If the scope of the problem and its intensity is greater, the problem is more likely to be found in the informal components as quoted by Pretorius (2004). In addition, it is also noted that when the intervention depth is greater in the informal organization, the failure risk and the cost of change is also higher. \u00a0The existence of structure is when two or more people join together for a common purpose and there is formal & legal relationship between them, this refers to the term formal organization (Sarlak & Salamzadeh, 2014).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Further, there exists a hierarchical order that establishes a logical authority relationship and follows a command chain. Only\u00a0predetermined\u00a0channels\u00a0of\u00a0contact\u00a0exist\u00a0for\u00a0communication between two\u00a0participants. There are different types of formal structure such as<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n