Evolution of Formal Organizations Paper
Evolution of Formal Organizations Paper Ashley Porterfield July 17, 2009 For many centuries now formal organizations have operated in the same ways. Progress in time and new workers start to takeover, a lot of formal organizations change to be more flexible in the work environment. Many organizations such as the one Micah works for are more than likely to change. Advancement of today’s technology, formal organizations are increasing the new way to be more efficient and get the job done. The organization that Micah belongs to have several things that should be changed, so the environment and flexibility that he wants will change. For starters all employees’ activities should be more of a team based and also equal between all the employees’s of the team. Organizations are now seeing that the increase productivity of team work, thanks to team work and the diminishment of the one employee per job are gone. Also organizations must also let go of some levels in the hierarchy to allow the work to be more effective so employees will be on the same level. With this it will then create a unified workforce only because people will feel equally responsible and also needed. With the technology that allow for faster and also less formal communications. Today formal organizations are no becoming less bureaucratic and flexible. Newer workers enter and take over and as technology, which means that more jobs are becoming less dependent on manual labor and more dependent on technology. Formal organizations have CEO instead of numerous managers and few senior managers and other employees are put into teams and work towards one specific goal. This is showing more openness and team work than ever before and productivity has also increased because of it. Formal organizations has been powered by traditional and bureaucracy for several centuries. Pyramid chain of commanded starts with CEO at the top going down. Rules and regulations are written down and if the rules are
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