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ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE AND
ENVIRONMENT:
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THE CONSTRAINTS3-1
Learning Objectives
You should learn to:
– Differentiate the symbolic from the omnipotent
view of management
– Define organizational culture
– Identify the seven dimensions that make up an
organization’s culture and how these dimensions
reflect the organization’s personality
– Explain how cultures can be strong or weak
– Describe the various ways that employees learn
culture
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Learning Objectives (cont.)
You should learn to:
– Explain how culture constrains managers
– Describe the various components in an
organization’s specific and general environments
– Contrast certain and uncertain environments
– Identify the various stakeholders with whom
managers have to deal
– Clarify how managers manage relationships with
external stakeholders
Organizational Culture
Managerial Organization’s Environment
Discretion
General
Environment
Suppliers Customers
The
Organization
Public
Pressure Competitors
Groups
Specific
Environment
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The Environment
Defining the External Environment
– External environment - forces and institutions outside the
organization that may affect organizational performance
• Specific environment - includes those constituencies
that have a direct and immediate impact on managers’
decisions and actions
– directly relevant to goal achievement
– is unique to each organization, including:
» customers - absorb organization’s output
» suppliers - provide material and equipment
» competitors - influence of Internet
» pressure groups - special-interest groups
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The Environment (cont.)
– External environment (cont.)
• General environment - includes the broad conditions
that may affect organizations
– Economic conditions - interest rates, changes in
disposable income, and stage of the business cycle
– Legal conditions - federal, state, and local
regulation
» substantial expense entailed to meet regulations
» limit choices available to organizations
– Political conditions - general stability of country
» attitudes of governmental officials toward
business
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EXHIBIT 3.6: SELECTED U.S. LEGISLATION AFFECTING BUSINESS