Management Environment

The external environment includes: Economic, sociocultural, demographic, technological, political/legal, global factors.

• True

• False

Which statement about the external environment and employment is true? External environmental conditions_________

• improve employment during upswings and worsen employment during downturns

• worsen employment during upswings and improve employment during downturns

• have no effect on employment during upswings & worsen it during downturns

• worsen employment during upswings & have no effect on it during downturns

The greater the environmental uncertainty, the more an organization needs to become ________.

• mechanistic (automatous & machine-like)

• stable (unchanged)

• organic (flexible and adaptable)

• high-tech (using most modern technology)

Which of the following best defines environmental uncertainty?

• the amount of innovation and creativity in an org's internal environment

• the amount of resources and expertise in an org's internal environment

• the amount of change and confidence in an org's external environment

• the amount of change and complexity in an org's external environment

Which of the following is LEAST likely to be considered a stakeholder for a newspaper company, The Daily Recorder?

• the paper boy who delivers the paper to customers

• critics who claim that all newspapers are biased and dishonest

• customers who buy the paper at news-stands

• subscribers

Employees learn organizational culture by reading official organization documents and histories.

• True

• False

Which of the following phrases best characterizes the culture of an organization?

• our official code of conduct

• how things are done around here

• the most efficient way to do things

• guidelines for where this organization is going

Your name_______