Evolving Formal Organizations
Evolving Formal Organizations
Sary Bo
Axia College University of Phoenix
We live in a world where there are many categories and labeling that we are subjected to. But depending on where we’re at in life, we can pretty much choose our own category. We can choose which social group we belong to. We can see which formal organization we have chosen to be in. These are all choices we can make on our own. There are many different social groups out there, as well as formal organizations. Formal organizations have well-established trends. There are certain trends that are older than the rest and newer ones that were implemented. Some of the older trends are here to stay. However, some have also gone away. As well as the new trends, we will see which ones are here to stay. In a world like ours, we have the right to chose our own formal organization. I work for a formal organization, with an open and flexible structure, where everything is flexible, just as it’s called. Many of the co-workers do their job in teams. We are able to share our ideas with one another and have it actually be taken seriously by someone else high above, like a manager or officer. I have a broad knowledge of the entire organization’s operation. My relative, Micah, works in a formal organization, with a conventional, bureaucratic organizational structure. The structure here looks like a pyramid, where there is a clear chain of command. The orders flow from the top down, and reports of performance flow from the bottom up. It has extensive rules and regulations, and their workers have highly specialized jobs. The conventional bureaucracy is whoever is on top of the pyramid, controls whoever is on the bottom. Because I have been studying the evolution of formal organizations in my sociology class, I would like to conduct research to determine how formal organizations, like Micah’s, are likely to evolve over time. Formal organizations date back thousands of years and have evolved
Sary Bo
Axia College University of Phoenix
We live in a world where there are many categories and labeling that we are subjected to. But depending on where we’re at in life, we can pretty much choose our own category. We can choose which social group we belong to. We can see which formal organization we have chosen to be in. These are all choices we can make on our own. There are many different social groups out there, as well as formal organizations. Formal organizations have well-established trends. There are certain trends that are older than the rest and newer ones that were implemented. Some of the older trends are here to stay. However, some have also gone away. As well as the new trends, we will see which ones are here to stay. In a world like ours, we have the right to chose our own formal organization. I work for a formal organization, with an open and flexible structure, where everything is flexible, just as it’s called. Many of the co-workers do their job in teams. We are able to share our ideas with one another and have it actually be taken seriously by someone else high above, like a manager or officer. I have a broad knowledge of the entire organization’s operation. My relative, Micah, works in a formal organization, with a conventional, bureaucratic organizational structure. The structure here looks like a pyramid, where there is a clear chain of command. The orders flow from the top down, and reports of performance flow from the bottom up. It has extensive rules and regulations, and their workers have highly specialized jobs. The conventional bureaucracy is whoever is on top of the pyramid, controls whoever is on the bottom. Because I have been studying the evolution of formal organizations in my sociology class, I would like to conduct research to determine how formal organizations, like Micah’s, are likely to evolve over time. Formal organizations date back thousands of years and have evolved
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