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Fundamental of Management

The document discusses how the external environment and organizational culture affect managers. It defines the external environment as factors, forces, situations, and events outside an organization that impact its performance. Managers must assess environmental uncertainty and manage stakeholder relationships. Organizational culture is the shared values, principles, traditions, and ways of doing things that influence employee behavior. A strong organizational culture can substitute for formal rules and also impact what managers do and the decisions they make.

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Fundamental of Management

The document discusses how the external environment and organizational culture affect managers. It defines the external environment as factors, forces, situations, and events outside an organization that impact its performance. Managers must assess environmental uncertainty and manage stakeholder relationships. Organizational culture is the shared values, principles, traditions, and ways of doing things that influence employee behavior. A strong organizational culture can substitute for formal rules and also impact what managers do and the decisions they make.

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Chapter

The
Management
Environment

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Learning Outcomes
• Explain what the external environment is and
why it’s important.
• Discuss how the external environment affects
managers.
• Define what organizational culture is and why
it’s important.
• Describe how organizational culture affects
managers.

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2.1 Explain what the
external
environment is and
why it’s important.

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External Environment
Factors, forces, situations, and events outside
the organization that affect its performance.

• Factors: Inflation, Unemployment, Pollution etc.


• Forces: Government, Law Enforcement Agencies etc.
• Situations: Un-Planned Activity or Happening
Supply warehouse caught fire, Labor Strike, etc.
• Events: Planned Activity
Elections, Budget Announcement, etc.

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Components of the External
Environment

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2.2 Discuss how the
external
environment affects
managers.

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How Does External Environment
Affect Managers?

• Jobs and employment


• Assessing environmental uncertainty
• Managing stakeholder relationships

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Assessing Environmental
Uncertainty

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Managing Stakeholder
Relationships

Stakeholders:
any constituencies in an organization’s
environment that are affected by that
organization’s decisions and actions.

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Organizational Stakeholders

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2.3 Define what
organizational
culture is and
explain why it’s
important.

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What is Organizational Culture?

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Organizational Culture

Shared values, principles, traditions,


and ways of doing things that influence the
way an organization’s members act.

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Culture is:

1. Perceived
2. Descriptive
3. Shared

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2.4 Describe how
organizational
culture affects
managers.

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How Does Organizational Culture
Affect Managers

• Effect on what employees do and how they


behave
• Effect on what managers do

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How Does Culture Affect What
Employees Do?
Strong cultures:
cultures in which the key values are deeply held
and widely shared.

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Strong Cultures Can:

• Substitute for formal rules and regulations


• Create predictability, orderliness, and consistency

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How Does Culture Affect What
Managers Do?

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Managerial Decisions Influenced by
Culture

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