Exam 4: The External Environment

An organization can change its domain most directly by:

Bobby Barista is a researcher in the R&D department at 3M. Part of her job is to read technical and scientific journals, and to attend conferences to find out what new developments are occurring. When she is doing this part of her job she is carrying out a ____ role.

Which of the following occurs when leaders from important sectors in the environment are made part of an organization?

An acquisition is the unification of two or more organizations into a single unit.

The socio-cultural sector refers to city, state, federal laws and regulations, taxes, courts systems, and political processes that may be in an organization's environment.

What is the environment of most e-commerce companies? What does your analysis of their environment lead you to conclude about appropriate adaptation of e-commerce companies to their environment?

____ is a way that high uncertainty influences organizational characteristics.

____ is the quality of collaboration among departments.

The organizational environment is defined as all elements that exist outside the boundary of the organization and have the potential to affect all or part of the organization.

A(n) ____ involves the purchase of one organization by another so that the buyer assumes control.

An organization's environment includes all except:

Which of the following is a proper dimension of the framework for assessing environmental uncertainty?

Resource dependence means that organizations depend on the environment but strive to acquire control over resources to minimize their dependence.

Once an organization relies on their others for valued resources, those other organizations can influence managerial decision making.

Boundary spanners can prevent the organization from stagnating by keeping top managers informed about environmental changes.

In organizations characterized by very ____ and ____ environments, almost no managers are assigned to integration roles.

____ is especially important in highly competitive consumer industries and in industries that experience variable demand.

Which of the following means that decision makers do not have sufficient information about environmental factors and they have a difficult time predicting external change?

The general environment includes those sectors that might not have a direct impact on the daily operations of a firm but will indirectly influence it.

The environmental conditions of complexity and change create a greater need to gather information and to respond based on that information.