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Formalisation

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, formalisation means: The extent to which an organisation defines work through explicit rules, procedures and documented roles.

In Turkish: biçimselleştirme

How it is used

Use when comparing how much behaviour is prescribed; high formalisation need not mean centralised decisions.

Example sentences

  1. Greater formalisation made the approval process easier for new managers to understand.

    Previously implicit working expectations become explicit and documented.

  2. The design studio kept formalisation low in creative work but documented payment procedures carefully.

    Different activities within one organisation can have different levels of prescribed practice.

Common collocations

  • degree of formalisation
  • increase formalisation
  • code of conductA written set of rules and principles that explains how the employees and managers of an organisation are expected to behave, for example on honesty, gifts and respect.
  • hierarchyA system in which the people in an organisation are arranged in levels, with each level having more authority than the one below it.

More terms: Organisational Structure

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