Mary Parke The Difference Between Formal And Informal Organization

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Organization is a place where two or more people who work together in a structured way to achieve a specific goal. Some organizations like army and large corporations etc are formally structured while others like a cricket team, group of friends etc are structured casually i.e. informal organizations. Both organizations strive to achieve towards a goal.
Goal means the purpose that an organization strive to achieve. To achieve the goal of an organization there needs a proper management. Management is a process of Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing & Controlling the work of organization members and of using all available organizational resource to reach stated organizational goal. The people who are responsible for achieving the stated goals are Managers.
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The following are the four major alternative definitions.
1) The organization is temporary human organisms with no particular optimum structural design such as the classical triangle.
2) That these temporary organisms, particularly those which are very large and complex, address themselves to many rather than one organizational goal.
3) The human organizations exist within and constantly interact with their environments such that essence of organization is to a large extent defined by its environment.
4) That human organization act as the throughput subsystem with the environment providing input and accepting output, and, thus these organizations might be defined in terms of their systematic relationship with environment.
It hopes that this redefinition of management which provide some new insight into the discipline within which a number of us are involved. It will ultimately benefit managing the organizations in a broad or objective view of practical

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