What is informal organization what are there advatange and disadvantage?

Answer 1

An informal organisation is one which is not reliant on a hierarchical structure, typical of large-scale companies. It is not typical for an entire organisation to be informal, as this could cause problems which are discussed in a moment, but formal organisations do tend to have informal ones within them. Informal organsations have very loose structures. People can become members freely and sometimes spontaenously; relationships are undefined and the sharing of responsibility and involvement of members will vary considerably. The best example to give is an organisation's football team. One might find a managing director, a manager and a manual worker all on the same team- and we know that relationships between them will be very different than in the officeplace. So, the football team is an informal organisation; the company as a whole is formal since it has increasing levels of power. The advantages of informal organisations are that they create strong relationships between their members. There is no theoretical "boss" and this makes all members feel like a larger part of the organisation as a whole. The disadvantages, which explain why there are few purely informal organisations, are that a lack of structure can result in a reduction in professionalism. The company cannot benefit from different people managing different areas easily. Finally, the members cannot look to the future- after all, with no-one above them, they cannot look for promotion and therefore find themselves stuck with the same job.