Task:
Environments shape organizations. In turn, organizations also shape the environments in which they interact. Organizations, in part, also choose which environments they enter and exit, choose which coalitions are most desirable, and determine the contexts in which they function. Write a paper that draws from the professional literature to address these issues and explains how organizations relate strategically to their environments.
Topic Sentence: Organizations relate strategically to their environments because they use resources to make the organization money.
Thesis: Looking into the interaction of organizations and the environments within which they operate in will show external and internal relationships with the environment. Specifically, it looks at their symbiotic relationship, clearly looking into both intrinsic and extrinsic influences that bring about such a relationship. In conclusion, we look at the basic structure of organizations and attempt to explain by justifying why organizations generically react to their environments.
How Organizations Relate Strategically to Their Environments
I. Introduction to Organizations and their environments
A. Analysis of the internal environments
1. Technology, employee morale, materials and resources, organizational culture
B. Analysis of the external environments
1. Global financial economy, changing market trends, changing demographics
II. The shaping of the organization by the environment (Pfeffer, et all 2012).
A. Description of how the internal environments shape the organization
1. Increasing productivity rates of the company
2. Leads to expansion opportunities for the corporation
3. Raising the client figure of the organization
B. Description of how the external environments shape the organization
1. Increases or reduces the market shares of the company
2. Altering the marketing strategies of the corporation (Organization, 2008).
3. Shifting the differentiation techniques utilized by the organization in the market
III. The shaping of the environment by the organization
A. The analysis of how the organizational culture shapes the environments
1. How the mission, vision, values, company strategies and objectives of the company shape the environment
2. How the technological aspects of the corporation affect the environment
a. The change in supply rates in the market environment due to the high productivity rates (Katz, et all 2010).
b. The alteration of the demand levels of the products by due to the increase in prices on the basis of the technological factor
B.The benefits derived from the influence of the organization on the environment
1. Shift in demand and supply rates in the market that affects global financial position
2. The creation of competitive situations in the market environment
3. Changing the customer supplier relationship in the environment
4. Attaining of alterations of the resources in the environment
C. Selecting the appropriate environment by the organization
1. Selection on the basis of the available resources in the environment
2. The presence of the manpower to undertake the organizational operations
3. The availability of product technology alternative for the organization
4. Selection on the basis of the clients’ demographics
D. The organizational response capacity to the environment
1. Identification of the environmental factors and features relevant to the goals of the company and performance (Organization, 2008).
2. Creating internal capacity for effective responses to environmental issues
a. To improve their technological aspects from any external disruption
b. Linking the operations of the organization to information and diverse resources
3. The setting of corporate strategies that will manage the external relationships
a. Administrative responses
b. Competitive responses; values, company uniqueness and imitability
c. Collective response that will effective manage the external relationships
IV. Recommendations
1. Analysis of the different ways that the organization can respond to the changing trends in the environment
2. The interventions that concern the environmental and the organizational relationship
a. integrated strategy changes(Pfeffer, et all 2012).
b. trans-organizational development
c. extreme mergers, acquisitions and takeovers that are in the market environment
V. Conclusion:
Organizations are open systems hence have to relate to their environments (Organization, 2008).
Reference:
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https://www.breckenridgeinstitute.com/four-global-boundaries-article.htm
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https://www.practical-management.com/Organization-Development/Organization-s-External-Environment.html
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Http://Www.Lrz.De/~B_Gill/10WS/Lv4_Fol/F06.Pdf
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