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Types of Formal Organization

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Formal organizations are normative, joined voluntarily for a shared purpose; coercive, entered under compulsion; or utilitarian, joined for material reward.

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A religious congregation, a historical military draft, and a medieval trading guild each illustrate one of the three types.

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An organization can be experienced as more than one type by different members.

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