The Environments of Organizations and Managers

 Everything outside an organization’s boundaries that might affect it includes the General environment.

• Technological dimension

• External environment

• Internal environment

• Economic dimension

The set of broad dimensions and forces in an organization’s surroundings that determine its overall context.

• Technological dimension

• Task environment

• General environment

•  Internal environment

The overall health and vitality of the economic system in which the organization operates.

• Political-legal dimension

• Technological dimension

• Economic dimension

• Task environment

An organization that competes with other organizations for resources.

• Competitor

• Customer

• Supplier

• Regulator

Whoever pays money to acquire an organization’s products or services

• Competitor

• Customer

• Supplier

• Regulato

A body that has the potential to control, legislate, or otherwise influence the organization’s policies and practices.

• Regulatory agencies

• Interest groups

• Strategic partner

• Regulator

An organization working together with one or more other organizations in a joint venture or similar arrangement.

• Regulator

• Strategic partner

• Regulatory agencies

• Interest groups

Governing body that is elected by a corporation’s stockholders and charged with overseeing the general management of the firm to ensure that it is being run in a way that best serves the stockholders’ interests.

• Employees

• Owner

• Board of directors

• Staff

An individual's personal beliefs about whether a behavior, action, or decision is right or wrong are called

• Ethics

•  Ethical behavior

• Demamd

• Unethical behavior

Choose the most correct statement:

• NTRs and MFNs are two principles commonly used in commercial policy

• MFN principle in WTO is unconditional

• Principle of NTRs is a fundamental principle in WTO

• Currently, people do not use the name MFN but use the name NTRs