COMMERCE 1BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Teal, Loose Coupling, Social Exchange Theory
4 May 2016
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***** external environment question 5***: events and conditions surrounding an organization that influence its activities, e is everything in environment if i don"t pay attention to it, my organization will suffer. Environment impacts how you structure because left is mechanistic and right is organic. Competition ? are there new players, or a decrease in players. Do we down size or reengineer or change how we are reformulated, do we become taller or flatter. Any change in legislation, human rights legislation, or corporate responsibility. Change in customer base: have i lost critical customers or many customers, demographics. There is a multitude of environment variables we need to open my minds to . What is the difference between a closed system perspective and open system perspective? pg. Organizational leaders who believe organizations are completely self- contained. They can do things the way they want to and not pay attention to outside environment.
