MGT3OCD Week 8 Notes

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Oct 30, 2023

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LEARNING OUTCOMES  After studying this lecture, you should be able to:  Explain the different ways an organisation can respond to its environment.  Describe the guidelines for open systems planning.  Discuss planned change initiatives, including transorganisational development, restructuring and re-engineering.  Explain the three approaches to work design. ORGANISATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL FRAMEWORK Consists of everything outside organisations that can affect, either directly or indirectly, their performance and outcome  General environment  Social, economic and ecological forces  Task environment  Customers, suppliers, competitors, producers of substitute products/services, unions and potential new entrants  Enacted environment

 Managerial perceptions and representations of the environment ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS AND ORGANISATIONAL TRANSACTIONS ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSES: SCANNING UNITS  Special units for scanning particular parts or aspects of the environment  market research  public relations  government relations  strategic planning  Gather and interpret relevant information about the environment, communicating it to decision makers  Enables organisations to monitor and make sense of their environment and gives a competitive edge ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSES: PROACTIVE  Engage in political activity to influence laws and regulations

 Seek government regulation to control entry to industries  Behave in a socially responsible way  Acquire control over resources  Introduce new products/services and use advertising to shape customer preferences ORGANISATION RESPONSES: COLLECTIVE STRUCTURES  Organisations deal with problems of environmental dependence and uncertainty by building alliances with other organisations, e.g. bargaining, contracting, co-opting, joint ventures, strategic alliances, consortia and federations  Ways in which organisations respond to the changing environment:  Open System Planning (OSP)  Transorganisational Development (TD)  Transorganisational Systems (TSS)  Organisational Restructuring UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS IN OSP  Perceptions play a major role in environmental relations

 Organisation members must share a common view of the environment  Perceptions must accurately reflect the condition of the environment if organisational responses are to be effective  Organisations can not only adapt to their environment, but also create it proactively OSP IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS  Assess the external environment  Assess how the organisation responds to the external environment  Identify the core mission of the organisation  Create a realistic future scenario of environmental expectations and organisational responses  Create an ideal future scenario of environmental expectations and organisation responses  Compare the present with the ideal future and prepare an action plan for reducing the discrepancy What could go wrong with this process? GUIDELINES FOR IMPLEMENTING OSP

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