ADMS 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Corporate Social Responsibility, Gross Domestic Product, Sa8000

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An organization is a group of people with common goals interacting with the environment. Gareth morgan suggested many images/metaphors, to understand concept of organization: Private not-for-profit sector (includes ngos, voluntary orgs, co-ops, credit unions et al) General environment includes: economic forces, political forces, societal forces, competitive forces, technological forces, global forces, labour forces. Inside the environment includes: people, structure, strategy. Parties/groups having a direct influence on a organization e. g. suppliers, customers, employees, unions, competitors, creditors, unions, distributors, local public, government and media. Business: private, commercially oriented organizations (includes publicly traded corporations . Society: a nation or large group of people with common values, history, traditions, institutions, activities & interests. It certainly provides goods and services, which society demands (needs? and is normally prepared to pay for. We can think of all organizations (including businesses) as part of organic. Web constituting society as a whole touch one part, and all web affected, to some extent.