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Write short note: Formal organisation.

  • UPSC 1988
  • Works and Economic Life

A formal organisation is a social collectivity deliberately established to achieve specific goals through a planned structure of positions, rules and authority. Chester I. Barnard (The Functions of the Executive, 1938) called it a "system of consciously coordinated activities or forces of two or more persons". Factories, hospitals, universities and government departments are examples. They…

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