Management, Organization and Leadership: Questions and Answers

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Activity 1-Types of Organization and Associated Structures

1. Formal and Informal Organization:

a) Using: “Text-Organizational Structure-An Overview,” briefly describe the elements of the formal and informal organization. Are they complementary or contradictory? Give examples of each.

The formal organization:

Is the legitimate and official portion of organizations, such as policies, titles of organizational members, reporting lines, and performance appraisals; An outgrowth of the Hawthorne studies.

The informal organization:

It includes people's feelings, thoughts, and attitudes about their performances, their social interactions, and how all these factors have an effect on their behaviors and performance.

The formal and informal organizations are indeed complementary to each other due to the facts that organizations are done by humans and there are circumstances that couldn’t guarantee the same performances during the day to day duties.

In addition, the informal organization couldn’t be limited formally written but could be observed and transferred into written performance review. Therefore, intervention activities created to value the organizational performance that often is focused on the informal organization, in the context of the formal organization.

b) What additional conclusions can be drawn from the Video: “Leading Outside The Lines.” Give specific examples.

The additional conclusions from the video are that every organization has to have organization structure in order of specific responsibilities for easy business approach and in case of any appraising or discipline matter to know to whom you can references on the special occasion.

Based on the organization nature of bu...

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...ered relevant in this particular case:

• Lack of communication (Bad radio signal)

• Lack of culture adaption (Word OK)

• Lack of decision making (During the strong fog, departure can be delayed)

• Lack of sufficient information ( Free runway was not properly confirmed)

• The change nature of the workforce (Fog)

In fact there was huge mess in resource among the three main persons in terms of organization and environment relationships that should be on place in order of peaceful take off and people safety. The following excel sheet will explain more that proper inputs with proper transformation cause successful outputs. Using French, R (2011) OB. P17 figure and compile it to the case study we will find that incomplete inputs resources and transformation process usually results inconvenience and in this particular case it was inconvenience catastrophe.

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