Study on the Management of Informal Organization in Firms

It is obvious that informal organization widely exists in social organizations, and informal organization lies in any organization, and it comes along with formal organizations. Once an informal organization appeared, it will penetrate with formal organization, and work on the activities formal organization in every aspect, especially in human resources management. The emergence of informal organization, internal rules and influences determine that it must be held by right attitude to bring the positive role of informal organization into full play in the process of management. Through analyzing the emergence and fundamental meaning, as well as the main features of informal organization, this paper presents both positive and negative effects of informal organizations on formal organizations, and then proposes responding strategies to informal organization and provides a theoretical basis and practical approach to the management of informal organization.