Also known as the grapevine, the informal organization, consisting of informal employee interaction, has some significant advantages over more formal communication channels. Company leaders do ...

How often have you heard somebody — a new CEO, a journalist, a management consultant, a leadership guru, a fellow employee — talk about the urgent need to change the culture? They want to make it ...

First let us distinguish the informal anarchist organisation from the anarchist organisation of synthesis. Considerable clarification will emerge from this distinction. What is an anarchist ...

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Most business people are familiar with organizational charts that show who reports to whom in a company. Those people in the boxes at the top of the chart are those presumed to have the most power.

Kristina Pikovskaia does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Gulati, Ranjay. "Renewal Through Reorganization: The Value of Inconsistencies Between Formal and Informal Organization." Paper presented at the Organization Science Special Issue Conference, Chicago, ...