mgmt 370. figure 2.1 organizations that are affected by, and that affect, their environment
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MGMT 370MGMT 370
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Figure 2.1
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Organizations that are affected by, and that affect, their environment.
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InputsGoods and services organizations take
in and use to create products or services.
OutputsThe products and services
organizations create.
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External environmentAll relevant forces outside a firm’s
boundaries, such as competitors, customers, the government, and the economy.
Competitive environmentThe immediate environment
surrounding a firm; includes suppliers, customers, rivals, and the like.
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MacroenvironmentThe general environment; includes governments, economic conditions, and other fundamental factors that generally affect all organizations.
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Figure 2.1
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Regulators include agencies such as:Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Many more
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The economic environment dramatically affects managers’ ability to function effectively and influences their strategic choices.
Interest and inflation rates affect the availability and cost of capital, growth opportunities, prices, costs, and consumer demand for products.
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Figure 2.3
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In publicly held companies, managers may feel required to meet Wall Street’s earnings expectations.
Pressure to focus on short-term results at the expense of long-term goals
Some managers tempted to engage in unethical/unlawful behavior that misleads investors
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Technological advances create new products, advanced production techniques, and better ways of managing and communicating.
As technology evolves, new industries, markets, and competitive niches develop.
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Measures of various characteristics of the people who make up groups or other social units
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Demographic trendsGrowth of labor forceIncreasing education and skill levels
ImmigrationIncreased numbers of women in the workforce
Increasingly diverse workforce
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Societal trends regarding how people think and behave have major implications for management of the labor force, corporate social actions, and strategic decisions about products and markets.
Family leave, domestic partner benefits
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Figure 2.4
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Competition is most intense when:There are many direct competitors
Industry growth is slowProduct/service is not easily differentiated
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Barriers to entry conditions that prevent new companies from entering an industry
capital requirements, restrictive distribution channels
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Substitutes alternative products or services
video games watching television
Complements products or services that increase purchases of other products
car insurance automobile purchases
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____________ costs are fixed costs buyer face if they change suppliers.
A.ExchangeB.LeverC.SwitchingD.Transfer
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Suppliers provide
resources or inputs needed for production
Switching costs fixed costs
buyer face if they change suppliers
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Supply chain management managing network of facilities and people that obtain materials from outside the organization, transform them into products, and distribute to customers
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Final customers purchase
products in their finished form
Intermediate customers purchase raw
material or wholesale products before selling them to final customers
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Environmental uncertainty Lack of information needed to understand or predict the future.
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Environmental complexityThe number of issues to which a manager must attend as well as the interconnectedness of these issues
Environmental dynamismThe degree of discontinuous change that occurs within an industry
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Environmental scanning searching out
information that is unavailable to most people and sorting that information to interpret what is important and what is not.
Competitive intelligence Information
that helps managers determine how to compete better.
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Scenario developmentA narrative that describes a particular set of future conditions
Best-case, worst-case
ForecastingMethod for predicting how variables will change the future
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What is the process of comparing an organization’s practices and technologies with those of other companies?
A.Comparative technologyB.BenchmarkingC.Process synchronizationD.Process asynchronization
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BenchmarkingThe process of comparing an organization’s practices and technologies with those of other companies.
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BufferingCreating supplies of excess resources in case of unpredictable needs.
SmoothingLeveling normal fluctuations at the boundaries of the environment.
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Independent strategiesStrategies that an organization acting on its own uses to change some aspect of its current environment.
Cooperative strategiesStrategies used by two or more organizations working together to manage the external environment.
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Table 2.4
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Table 2.5
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Strategic maneuveringAn organization’s conscious efforts to change the boundaries of its task environment.
Domain selectionEntrance to a new market or industry with an existing expertise
DiversificationOccurs when a firm invests in a different product, business, or geographic area
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Mergers One or more companies combine with
another Acquisitions
One firm buys another Divestiture
A firm sells one or more businesses Prospectors
Continuously change the boundaries or their task environment by seeking new products and markets, diversifying and merging, or acquiring new enterprises
Defenders Stay within a stable product domain as a
strategic maneuver
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Organizational culture The set of important assumptions
about the organization and its goals and practices that members of the company share
In strong cultures, most people within the organization agree on organizational goals
In weak cultures, most people within the organization disagree on organizational goals
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Figure 2.6