The Managers Environment

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The Managers Environment
Prepared by Deborah Baker Texas Christian
University
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learning objectives

• Discuss why organizations are open systems
• Identify the elements in an organizations
  internal environment
• Describe the directly interactive forces in an
  organizations external environment
• Describe the indirectly interactive forces in an
  organizations external environment
• Discuss the means available to managers for
  boundary spanning
• Explain how managers can influence their external
  environments
• Describe the obligations that organizations have
  to their stakeholders

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The Organization as a System
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The process of collecting information about the
external environment
Environmental Scanning

• Identifies and analyzes trends
• Allows managers to determine the best response to
  an environmental change
• Identifies signals of change

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The Organization as a System
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Internal Environment
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A Companys Mission

• Primary reason for existence
• The touchstone
• Should include whom it serves, how, and why
• Easily recalled
• Provides direction and motivation for the
  organization
• Gets the emotional bonding and commitment needed

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Core Competencies
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Organizational Culture
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Leadership
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• Influencing others
• Encouraging and enabling followers
• Walking the talk
• Setting an example
• Creating a generative shared vision
• Providing the catalyst for perpetual learning

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Organizational Structure
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Resources
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Directly Interactive Forces
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Trends in Supplier Practices
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Competitive Bases
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Indirectly Interactive Forces
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Economic Forces
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Legal / Political Forces
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Sociocultural Forces
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Technological Forces
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Natural Forces
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Sensing and Adapting to Environments
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The surveillance of outside areas and factors
that can influence plans, forecasts, decisions,
and organizations Sometimes called environmental
scanning
Boundary Spanning
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Influencing Environments
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Meeting Responsibilities to Stakeholders
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