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Informal Organizations and Their Relation to Formal Organizations

Informal Organizations and its relation to the Formal Organization

Introduction

Chester Barnard was an American businessman, a public administrator, and an academic. The purpose of this essay is to provide critical analysis of the article Informal Organizations and its relation to the Formal Organization by Chester Barnard. Barnard was one of the first people to make a study of the relationships between formal and informal organizations.

Discussion

According to Barnard, the interesting thing about formal organizations is that there is not just one kind of formal organization. Barnard presented the idea of informal and ...