Chapter 4 Flashcards
Difference between influences on public and private organizations
Public organizations have more direction and intervention from political actors and authorities
why/how do subunits act differently within the same agencies?
They operate in different policy areas and have stronger alliances with legislators and interest groups than with the agency director
How do members of an organization affect it’s environment
They make choices about what to pay attention to.
They choose the organizations domain (field of operations), geographic areas, markets, clients, products and services on which to focus.
how do organization-environment relations work
2 way influence process
Lusch and Vargo (2014) customers and communities act as a resource integrator by combing an organization’s services with the social context within which they are imbedeed
General Environmental Conditions
Technological Legal Political Economic Demographic Ecological Cultural
Technological Conditions (environmental)
The general level of knowledge and capability in science, engineering, medicine, and other substantive areas; general capacities for communication, transportation, information processing, medical services, military weaponry, environmental analysis, production and manufacturing process and agricultural production.
Legal Conditions (environmental)
Laws, regulations, legal procedures, court decisions; characteristics of legal institutions and values, such as provisions for individual rights, and jury trials as well as general institutionalization and stability of legal processes.
Political Conditions (environmental)
Characteristics of the political processes and institutions in a society, such as general form of government (socialism, communism, capitalism, and so on or the degree of centralization, fragmentation, or federalism); the degree of political stability; and more direct and specific conditions such as electoral outcomes, political party alignments and success, and policy initiatives within regimes.
Economic Conditions (environmental)
Levels of prosperity, inflations, interest rates, and tax rates; characteristics of labor, capital, and economic markets within and between nations.
Demographic Conditions (environmental)
Characteristics of the population such as age, gender, race, religion, and ethnic categories
Ecological Conditions (environmental)
Characteristics of the physical environment, including climate, geographic characteristics, pollution, natural resources, and the nature and density of organizational populations.
Cultural Conditions (environmental)
Predominant values, attitudes, beliefs, social customs, and socialization processes concerning such things as sex roles, family structure, work orientation, and religious and political practices.
