Question

What is an informal organization? How is it formed?

Answer 1

Informal organization:

• In the formal organizational structure, individuals are assigned various job positions. While working at those job positions, the individuals interact with each other and develop some social and friendly groups in the organization.
• This network of social and friendly groups forms another structure in the organization which is called informal organizational structure.
• The informal organizational structure gets created automatically and the main purpose of such structure is getting psychological satisfaction.
• The existence of informal structure depends upon the formal structure because people working at different job positions interact with each other to form informal structure. So, if there is no formal structure, there will be no job position and there will be no informal structure.
• Informal organization can be considered as a shadow of forma! structure of Organization. It can also be considered a subordinate structure to formal organization.
• The members while doing the formal work also interact at social level, bring ‘ their own values and assumptions during work discussion. The members of informal organization develop friendship, alliances, trusted sources of information and share preferences on how work should be done.
• One of the best examples of informal organization is the several group of friends formed within class 12. Although, school follows some specific structure of organization but groups of friends are informal organizations within this structure.