What are the limitations of organization charts?

Limitations of Organisation Charts:

The organisation charts suffer from the following drawbacks.

The organisation charts show the relationship of different positions and not the degree of authority and responsibility. The size of boxes or circles in the chart cannot show the level of authority etc.

A chart only depicts formal organisational relationship whereas informal organisation is ignored. Practically informal organisation is an useful as formal organisation. Informal organisation greatly helps management in knowing the reactions of the people and is an important channel of communication.

A chart shows organisational position and status at different levels. It gives rise to superior-inferior feeling among people and it retards the feeling of team work.