MGT 3200 Chapter : MGT 2
Document Summary
The environment of management (chapter 3) (changing and adapting) mainly a job of top management. Successful managers spent most of their time on networking. Teamwork, working with each other is greater: equifinality (organizations facing the same environment can conduct business differently and still be successful- more than one road to success) Primary = production, input and output boundary spanning, adaptive. Secondary = maintenance, managerial: the five organizational subsystems (made to. Make you more eff and eff: production (where transformation takes place- internally oriented) takes place in many different areas, input, output boundary spanning (inputs handling environment (purchasing etc. ) Page 3 of 5: environmental scanning (top managements job) Scan for threats and opportunities- gathering and processing data. The better you scan the better you perform: positively related to organizational. Performance: the foundation on which planning is built. The external environment: direct (when these change they are felt in the short run) They can buy from us or someone else.
