Types Of Groups In Organization

What is the meaning of group? A group is a few of people team up together to achieve a certain goals or objectives. They may have same interest in certain activities and mutual interaction. They also will frequently interact with each other and have regular contact.

In organization, group plays an important role as work or activities are in in groups. Individual works is also done in organization but as an organization is a deliberate arrangement of people assembled to accomplish specific goals so we can tell that an organization represent a group of people working together as one person’s actions gives impact on others. Groups of people who get along with each other and have desire contribute to the groups and also give respect to their leader

There are two types of groups.

Formal Group- This type of group are usually been created in an organization. This group’s mission is to fulfill the organization goals or objectives. The team members may be consists of board of directors, employees of various department of an organization or employees that provides specialized services. This group can be formed in permanent or temporary form as it is depends on the purpose of a certain group. The working environment of a formal group usually regulated by following organizational rules and regulations.

Informal Group- This type of group is created by employees in an organization without any intervention from the leaders of the organization. The members of this group have close relationship with each other as they are mutual interest in certain activities. For examples, employees of Sunway Berhad formed a group of golf players and get together to play golf in the weekends. This type of group is considered informal and not regulated by organization rules and regulation.

Formal and informal group can be differentiated in the following

Size- Formal group are often in larger size. This is because employees of various field or specialization are grouped together to achieve organization goals. Informal group size tend to be smaller in size as its purpose is just satisfy employees need which cannot be obtain in formal group. Smaller in size gives advantages to members to interact better within the group.

4. Nature of Group- Formal group are stable in nature. It is means they can be permanent for a long period. Their members may change according to organization objectives in specific times but their goals will be the same. They will be in the group until the goal are achieved. In other hand, informal group are unstable in nature. As this groups is depend on member likes and dislike or personality of members, if the group experiences some changes which is not suitable for certain members, the group will have some changes in membership.

5. Numbers in group- Big organization may have numerous groups and subgroups. The larger the organization, the larger the amount of group in the organization. The numbers in group also depends on organization pattern in formal group. Similar to that, informal group can be also larger in size as the employees enjoys same interest. Moreover, some member in informal group can be member in several informal groups and this will contribute to overlap of