HROB 2090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Virginia Department Of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Role Conflict, Job Design

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2090
• Professor: Thomas Sasso

Document Summary

The external environment refers to events and conditions surrounding an organization that influence its activities. The external environment has tremendous influence on organizations. Examples of the influence of the external environment on organizations: The external environment profoundly shapes organizational behaviour. Open systems are systems that take inputs from the external environment, transform some of these inputs, and send them back into the external environment as outputs. The open system concept sensitizes us to the need for organizations to cope with the demands of the environment on both the input side and output side. Some of this coping involves adaptation to environmental demands and some may be oriented toward changing the environment. The external environment involves any person, group, event, or condition outside the direct domain of the organization. The external environment can be divided into manageable number of components. Environmental uncertainty is a condition that exists when the external environment is vague, difficult to diagnose, and unpredictable.