chapter 8 Flashcards
environment how to divide
general environment
specific environment
specific envimroemnt
consciences
environmental uncertainty
lack of knowledge can predict though, loss of major customisers, new technologies
environment uncertainty or
accidents (vant predict)
burns and stalkers
found out about mechanistic structure and organic structure
mechanistic structure
stable environment, stabilisation, formalisation, centra
organismic
decentralisation, low complexity, low formalisation
Lawrance and Lorsch contribution
differentiation and Integration
differentiation and Integration meaning
org and environment have subsets, org differentiate into departments to deal with environment, departments still have to collab
integration devices
rules, procedures
flexible environment means is difeentiaiton?
high differentiation but need to work together
Duncans contribution
first dimension: rate of change
second dimension (environmental complexity
boundary spanner
people who operate as contributors to managing environmental uncertainty, they have expertise on understaffing env segment, they filter all info
3 dimension of environment
complexity, capacity, stability
population ecology approach
natural selection
