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Organizing- to create structures: divide up the work, arrange resources, coordinate. The structure of the organization in its official state. An organization chart is a diagram describing reporting relationships and the formal arrangement of work positions within an organization. An organization chart identifies the following aspects of formal structure: the division of work, supervisory relationships, communications channels, major subunits, level of management. Informal structures: a shadow organization made up of the unofficial, but often critical, working relationships between organization members. Potential advantages of informal structures: helping people accomplish their work, overcoming limits of formal structure, gaining access to interpersonal networks, informal learning. Potential disadvantages of informal structures: misinformation, susceptibility to rumor, may breed resistance to change, diversion of work efforts from important objectives, feeling of alienation by outsides, may work against best interest of entire organization. Traditional organizations structures: functional structures, divisional structures, matrix structure.

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