This document discusses formal communication in organizations. It defines formal communication as official, written communication such as notices, letters, and memos. It describes the different types of formal communication as upward, horizontal, diagonal, and downward. Advantages of formal communication include its systematic nature, ease of fixing responsibilities, and ability to exercise control. Disadvantages are delays due to chains of command and impersonal nature. Formal communication networks can take the form of wheel, chain, circle, channel, or inverted v patterns to dictate how information flows within an organization.

1. FORMAL
COMMUNICATION
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2. COMMUNNICATION:-
• Act of giving , receiving , and sharing information in other words taking or
writing , and listening and reading .
• Every communication involves one sender message and a recipient.
Communication
Formal
communication
Informal
communicaton
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3. Formal communication
•Formal communication refers to official
communication taking place in the organization.
Formal communication generally takes place in the
written form such issue of notice , letter, memo,
document etc.
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4. Types of communication
Formal
Communication
Upward
communication
Horizontal
Communication
Diagonal
Communication
Downward
Communication
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5. Advantages of formal Communication
• The formal communication is very systematic and ensures orderly flow of
information.
• The source of information can easily be located.
• In formal communication it is easy to fix the responsibilities of different
employees as there is proof for the information.
• It is easy to exercise control over the work performance.
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6. Disadvantages of formal Communication
• The information is delayed as generally sector chain is followed while
passing of information.
• In formal communication the information is conveyed or passed in
impersonal manner.
• Formal communication involves cost.
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7. Network of Formal Communication
Wheel
pattern
Chain
pattern
Circle
pattern
Inverted v
Channel
pattern
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8. 1.Wheel Pattern:-
Under wheel pattern all the
information flows from one person, who is generally leader of the
group.
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9. Chain Pattern:-
Under the chain pattern each person
gets the information from one person that is their
immediate.
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10. Circle Pattern:-
In the circle pattern each
person communication with two or more persons in
a group.

11. Channel pattern:-
Under all channel pattern
their is no fixed pattern of communication .
Information can flow from anywhere in the
organization.
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12. InvertedV:-
In this network a subordinates is allowed to
communicate with his immediate superior and also
with the superior of his superior.
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