Formal Organization Concept

Formal Organization corresponds to the organizations’ component that establishes the way how is performed its own management and coordination, and control of people and activities. For this, are created in the organization organizational structures and established rules, policies and procedures that regulate the way how, when and by who are performed the several tasks needed for its operation.

The other component of the organization is the informal organization, which corresponds to a group of relations or interactions that emerge spontaneously among its members and that are not predicted or formalized by the formal organization. It’s a group formed by structures, rules and procedures that make the formal organization and by the informal relations/interactions among its members and that make the informal organization that result the real organizations like we know them.

 

 

Translated from Portuguese by Susana Saraiva, Portuguese-English and English-Portuguese translation specialist. Contact: spams@sapo.pt.