Question

Top Queen, Inc. (TQI) ​ Top Queen, Inc. (TQI) is a business-clothing store for professional women. The owner of the company has designed the business so that she hardly ever has to be there. There are many departmental managers who hold a lot of responsibility. While they are organized separately by department, each manager knows enough about the other departments to be able to fill in at any time. The department managers also delegate a lot of work further down to their employees as a way to empower them. The owner even delegates store-management responsibilities to a different department manager each month. Even though certain people are delegated certain tasks, everyone pitches in, so it is sometimes hard to tell who is really in charge. ​ The employees are so comfortable with each other that many go out and participate in activities together on the weekends, even when they are not working. However, the owner realizes that she does not want to participate in these events because she does not want to seem that she is favoring certain people over others. Refer to Top Queen, Inc. The group of employees that participate in outside activities on the weekend would be considered a(n) ____ group.

Answer 1

Answer:

informal group

Explanation:

Informal groups are those formed by different types of individuals who are within a company who establish a relationship between them without considering the hierarchical levels that each one assumes within the company, when they are in activities outside the business environment and sometimes, even even within that ambuent.

An informal group is only formed by individuals who are involved with the same company. An example of this can be seen in the question above, where the employees of Top Queen, Inc. feel so comfortable next to each other that they engage in random activities on the weekends, without considering the hierarchical levels that each one assumes within the company. Top Queen, Inc.

Answer 2

Answer:

Informal group          

Explanation:

Top Queen, Inc. (TQI) ​ Top Queen, Inc. (TQI) is a business-clothing store for professional women. The owner of the company has designed the business so that she hardly ever has to be there. There are many departmental managers who hold a lot of responsibility. While they are organized separately by department, each manager knows enough about the other departments to be able to fill in at any time. The department managers also delegate a lot of work further down to their employees as a way to empower them. The owner even delegates store-management responsibilities to a different department manager each month. Even though certain people are delegated certain tasks, everyone pitches in, so it is sometimes hard to tell who is really in charge. ​ The employees are so comfortable with each other that many go out and participate in activities together on the weekends, even when they are not working. However, the owner realizes that she does not want to participate in these events because she does not want to seem that she is favoring certain people over others. Refer to Top Queen, Inc. The group of employees that participate in outside activities on the weekend would be considered an informal group.

An informal group are groups formed among employees based on mutual likes and dislikes, they are geared towards social interactions, there are no structures or established rules and are not based on organizational structure aimed at achieving certain objectives as in the case of formal groups