Organizational Responses to Environmental Pressures

The video discusses various strategies organizations use to respond to environmental pressures. These include acquiescence, compromise, avoidance, defiance, and manipulation. Each strategy is explained in terms of how it helps organizations adapt to external factors, shaping their overall strategy. The video emphasizes the importance of understanding these responses to effectively manage organizational challenges.

What is the primary focus of the environmental school of strategy?

• Enhancing employee satisfaction

• Maximizing profit margins

• Responding to environmental pressures

• Developing internal policies

Which strategy involves an organization accepting and imitating external pressures?

• Avoidance

• Defiance

• Acquiescence

• Compromise

How does compromise differ from acquiescence?

• It involves complete acceptance of pressures

• It involves partial compliance and negotiation

• It involves ignoring the pressures

• It involves changing the pressures

What does the avoidance strategy primarily aim to achieve?

• Concealing and buffering against pressures

• Complete compliance with pressures

• Direct confrontation with pressures

• Manipulating pressures to benefit the organization

In the context of avoidance, what does creating a buffer mean?

• Increasing organizational resources

• Absorbing effects of pressures internally

• Expanding market reach

• Reducing employee workload

What is a key characteristic of the defiance strategy?

• Complying with external pressures

• Ignoring and challenging external pressures

• Adopting external pressures

• Negotiating with external pressures

How does manipulation differ from other strategies?

• It involves partial compliance

• It involves changing the pressures themselves

• It involves ignoring pressures

• It involves complete compliance