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In Chapter Four: “Analyzing the Environment of Public Organizations” (pp. 89-109) of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations (4th Edition), Hal Rainey begins by revisiting the content that had been covered in chapter two of the book. Organizational environment, as described in chapter two, is one of the most important concepts that are analyzed in relation to the study of management and organizations. It is clear that a little emphasis was given to an organization’s environments or its managers’ responses to the insights made by the early contributors to the study of organizations as they concentrated on structures. Limited attention was given to certain aspects of people, tasks, incentives, and processes, and organizational environments and the challenges of dealing with such environment is now considered as absolutely crucial to analyzing and leading organizations by the contemporary researchers and experts. Managers are currently being exhorted by the management expert in monitoring and analyzing their environments, and it is also clear that the executives and task forces are regularly being led by consultants through the established analyses as part of strategic planning sessions.
Under the general dimensions of organizational environments, Rainey (2012) has made it clear that a significant approach that can be used in working through some of the complexity of environmental analysis is by laying out the general sectors or clusters of conditions that an
The organisational environment of a company is defined by its stakeholders, including the owners, managers, employees, suppliers, competitors, government agencies and the media amongst others. Each group of stakeholders have varying degrees of influence in an organisation’s success. The relationships between the stakeholders in the organisational structure can be a source of competitive advantage for the company.
An organizational analysis is an important tool to become familiar with how medical businesses and organizations are able to meet standards of care, provide services for the community and provide employment to health care providers. There are many different aspects to evaluate in an organizational analysis. This paper will describe these many aspects and apply the categories to the University Medical Center (UMC) as the organization being analyzed.
An organization’s external environment is terribly important and must be studied and understood for the organization to truly succeed. Through such study and understanding, a manager would be able “mitigate threats and leverage opportunities” that are caused by the six segments identified as macro-level external forces: (1) political, (2) economic, (3) sociocultural, (4) technological, (5) ecological, and (6) legal (Rothaermel, 2013, pp. 56-57). Since the manager’s decisions, or firm effects, have a greater impact than those external forces mentioned only when the manager accounts for them and builds a strategy around them, the manager must be aware of and understand these forces to be
The management of an organization plays an integral part in determining the direction and performance of the organization. The manner in which the management of an organization is handled has a profound effect on the organization. The success of an organization is dependent upon a flexible and skilled management and workforce. The management of an organization is responsible for shaping up the organizational behavior and ultimately the culture within the organization. Public management faces a multiple of challenges and opportunities, how the management deals with these issues translates to efficiency in management. The personal judgments and skills of public managers can make a significant impact in public management. If
The environment of any organization consists of internal and external factors. An organization should conduct a scan of its environment in order for it to determine development, and a forecast on the factors that may influence the success of the organization. Scanning the environment refers to the possession and utilization of the information that an organization has about trends, patterns, occasion and the external and internal relationship that are within an organization. A scan of the environment may assist the management team of an organization in making a decision about the future path of the
The importance of the analysis determines what outer factors that mold or influence management’s future strategic decisions. Accordingly, the general environment analysis incorporates several divisions, such as the economic circumstances, political/legal effects, socio-cultural powers, technological dynamics, and physical conditions (Gamble, Thompson, Peteraf, 2015). Most importantly, each segment will be centered on what significant areas that are correlated to the bed and mattress
I think it is important to assess the environment opportunities associating them to the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation resources.
‘Organisations are open systems (like organisms) and must have an appropriate relationship with the environment if they are to survive’.
The environment is like a double-edged sword, providing companies opportunities but threats as well. Therefore, in an increasingly hostile marketplace, a systematic and careful environmental analysis is supposed to be considered by companies (Johnson et al, 2011). The macro-environment of a company can be analysed by the framework of PESTEL, which includes six categories: political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal (Johnson et al, 2011, Appendix A ).
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the public interest and the administrative responsibility. Discuss some of the recent ethical obligations confronting public administrators in their day to day decision making. Also we will examine the recent trend in privatizing government functions. Finally, we will discuss if privatizing posses any type of dilemma’s for the attainment of public interest.
Organizational environments: Reciprocal relationships exist between an organization and environments; information systems provide organizations a way to identify external changes that might require an organizational response.
To assure the success of a business over a long period of time the business must be able to conduct regular analysis of their success. They must be able to determine where they are today and have a goal of where they would like to see themselves 5-10 years down the road. In order to conduct a true analysis of the company, one must complete an environmental scan of their organization. Thus scanning for events, trends, issues and expectations that they may be faced with in the future. Furthermore, examining all internal and external environment challenges. Internal environmental challenges may be with employees, shareholders or board of directors or the overall culture of the organization. External environmental
In today's world, no business operates in isolation without interacting with the environment where it operates. Irrespective of the nature of business whether public or private organization; manufacturing; service industry; local or international firm, its operations are inhibited by the environment in which it operates.
Organizational Environment: those forces outside its boundaries that can impact it. Forces can change over time and are made up of Opportunities and Threats. (7)
Organizations are open systems and must relate to their environments. They must acquire the resources and information needed to function; they must deliver products or services that are valued by customers. An organization 's strategy--how it acquires resources and delivers outputs--is shaped by particular aspects, and features of the environment. Thus, organizations can devise a number of responses for managing environmental interfaces, from internal administrative responses, such as creating special units to scan the environment, to external ,collective responses, such as forming strategic alliances with other organizations.