Organizational Environments and Culture
External Environments
1. discuss how changing environments affect organizations.
2. describe the four components of the general environment.
3. explain the five components of the specific environment.
4. describe the process that companies use to make sense of their changing environments.
Changing Environments
Environmental Change
• Environmental Change is the rate at which a company’s environments change
• stable environments
• dynamic environments
• Punctuated equilibrium theory
• companies cycle through a stable and dynamic environment.
, Environmental Complexity 1.2
• Environmental Complexity: the number of external factors in the environment that affect
organizations
• Simple environments
• have few environmental factors
• Complex environments
• have many environmental factors
Resource Scarcity
• Resource scarcity is the degree to which an organization’s external environment has an abundance or
scarcity of critical organizational resource
External Environments
1. discuss how changing environments affect organizations.
2. describe the four components of the general environment.
3. explain the five components of the specific environment.
4. describe the process that companies use to make sense of their changing environments.
Changing Environments
Environmental Change
• Environmental Change is the rate at which a company’s environments change
• stable environments
• dynamic environments
• Punctuated equilibrium theory
• companies cycle through a stable and dynamic environment.
, Environmental Complexity 1.2
• Environmental Complexity: the number of external factors in the environment that affect
organizations
• Simple environments
• have few environmental factors
• Complex environments
• have many environmental factors
Resource Scarcity
• Resource scarcity is the degree to which an organization’s external environment has an abundance or
scarcity of critical organizational resource
