INFORMAL GROUP: AN INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING BLOCK FOR INNOVATION IN WORK ORGANISATIONS

Abstract

Individuals in the workplace often engage in informal activities or personal endeavours that lead to both deliberate and serendipitous disruptive innovation and industry change. Informal group and their activities dominate most organizational setting. They are a no-do-without group despite they are not formally structured in the workplace. However, it is important to note that informal group plays a great role in driving for innovation in the organization as long as the informality is high. Thus, this chapter dissects on informal group and its possible tendency of promoting innovation in work organization.