environment
(noun)
The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
Examples of environment in the following topics:
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Considering the Environment
- Considerations of the external environment—including uncertainty, competition, and resources—are key in determining organizational design.
- Considerations of the external environment are a key aspect of organizational design.
- Complexity theory postulates that organizations must adapt to uncertainty in their environments.
- Therefore, companies in a highly uncertain environment must prioritize adaptability over a more rigid and functional strategy.
- Identify the inherent complexities in the external environment that influence the design of an organization's structure
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Combining Internal and External Analyses
- Organizations must carefully consider what internal assets will differentiate them from the competition, within the same competitive environment.
- Combining these two constitutes context analysis, which is a method of analyzing the environment in which a business operates.
- Environmental scanning focuses mainly on the macro-environment of a business.
- Context analysis considers the entire environment of a business, both internal and external.
- This strategic development requires companies to understand the opportunities and threats in the external environment and benchmark these against the strengths and weaknesses of their internal environment.
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Defining Attitude
- An attitude is generally defined as the way a person responds to his or her environment, either positively or negatively.
- An attitude could be generally defined as the way a person responds to his or her environment, either positively or negatively.
- To the extent they are able, managers should strive to remedy these situations to encourage an effective work environment.
- A strong work environment is vital for an effective and efficient workplace.
- A person's attitude can be influenced by his or her environment, just as a person's attitude affects his or her environment.
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PESTEL: A Framework for Considering Challenges
- The PESTEL framework highlights six critical factors for management to consider when approaching the general business environment.
- Organizations are faced with a variety of external factors that provide potential opportunities and threats for short-term and long-term success in any given environment.
- The impact of business upon the environment is a growing concern, and companies must consider both the social and political segments of PESTEL in conjunction with environmental factors.
- Consumers and governments both penalize companies that adversely affect the environment.
- The environment can also be a source of benefit to a company, such as running water for a hydro-power plant.
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The Impact of the Office Environment on Employee Communication
- The main purpose of an office environment is to support its occupants in performing their job at minimum cost and with maximum satisfaction.
- The main purpose of an office environment is to support its occupants in performing their job, preferably at minimum cost and with maximum satisfaction.
- Effective communication among team members and others requires a physical environment that facilitates interaction so individuals can coordinate activities, discuss and plan tasks, and manage interpersonal relationships effectively and efficiently.
- The design of an organization's physical environment requires a series of decisions about how the spaces will be used, by whom, and under what circumstances.
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Arguments for and against Corporate Social Responsibility
- Corporate social responsibility, also referred to as CSR, can be described as embracing responsibility for a company's actions and encouraging a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, and other stakeholders.
- For example, the term greenwashing refers to instances where businesses have spent significantly more resources advertising being "green" (that is, operating with consideration for the environment) than investing in the environmentally sound practices themselves.
- Critics view these as misleading, even cynical, attempts to shape public perception about a company without its actually having to benefit the environment.
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Types of Social Responsibility: Ecocentric Management
- Corporate social responsibility, also referred to as CSR, can be described as a business's efforts to assume responsibility for its actions and to encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, and other stakeholders.
- "Deep" ecology is a form of environmentalism that seeks to protect and improve the quality of the natural environment.
- Instead, they reflect an organization's commitment to the environment as the primary core value for conducting business.
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The Perceptual Process
- Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information to represent and understand the environment.
- Each of these factors influence how the person perceives their environment, so responses to their environment can be understood by taking the perceptual process into account.
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SWOT Analysis
- A method of analyzing the environment in which businesses operate is referred to as a context analysis.
- The main goal of a context analysis, SWOT or otherwise, is to analyze the business environment in order to develop a strategic plan.
- Opportunities: external chances to improve performance in the overall business environment
- Threats: external elements in the environment that could cause trouble for the business
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The Behavioral-Science Approach
- Behavioral science within the business management environment is a specific application of this field, and employs a number of specific types of behavioral observations.
- Information processing involves determining how people process stimuli in their environment.
- This field deals with the processing of stimuli from the social environment by cognitive entities in order to engage in decision making, social judgment, and social perception.
- The field is particularly concerned with information processing as it relates to individual functioning and the survival of an organism in a social environment.