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    Organization Is A Social Group Which Distributes Tasks For A Collective Goal

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    The document discusses organizations and their environments. It defines an organization as a social group that distributes tasks to achieve a collective goal. Organizations exist to bring together resources, produce goods/services, facilitate innovation, adapt to changing environments, create value, and accommodate challenges. The general environment includes factors outside an organization's control that influence its operations. The task environment includes groups an organization interacts with like suppliers, customers, and competitors. The internal environment includes internal factors under an organization's control like culture and resources. Organizational effectiveness depends on an organization's ability to respond to its various environments.

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    The document discusses organizations and their environments. It defines an organization as a social group that distributes tasks to achieve a collective goal. Organizations exist to bring together resources, produce goods/services, facilitate innovation, adapt to changing environments, create value, and accommodate challenges. The general environment includes factors outside an organization's control that influence its operations. The task environment includes groups an organization interacts with like suppliers, customers, and competitors. The internal environment includes internal factors under an organization's control like culture and resources. Organizational effectiveness depends on an organization's ability to respond to its various environments.

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    The document discusses organizations and their environments. It defines an organization as a social group that distributes tasks to achieve a collective goal. Organizations exist to bring together resources, produce goods/services, facilitate innovation, adapt to changing environments, create value, and accommodate challenges. The general environment includes factors outside an organization's control that influence its operations. The task environment includes groups an organization interacts with like suppliers, customers, and competitors. The internal environment includes internal factors under an organization's control like culture and resources. Organizational effectiveness depends on an organization's ability to respond to its various environments.

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    Organization Is A Social Group Which Distributes Tasks For A Collective Goal

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    Objectives:

    1. Discuss the nature of organizational environments


    2. Identify the components of the general, task, and internal environment and discuss their
    impact on organizations
    3. Identify and describe basic kinds of organization-environment relationships
    4. Discuss organizational effectiveness

    Organization is:
    1. A group of persons with a common objective (neoclassical);
    2. A structured process in which individual for objectives (hicks);
    3. A set of interlocked activities under unified control

    Organization is a social group which distributes tasks for a


    collective goal

    Organization exist to:


     Bring together resources;
     Produce goods and services;
     Facilitate innovation;
     Adapt to and influence a changing environment;
     Create value;
     Accommodate ongoing challenges

    Types of organizations:
     Governmental vs non-governmental;
     Commercial vs non-commercial;
     Budgetary vs off-budget;
     Public vs private

    Why do some organizations belong to the public sector?


     To ensure everyone has access to basic services;
     To avoid wasteful competition and enjoy benefits of economies of scale;
     To protect citizens;
     To reduce unemployment

    Private sector
    1. Sole proprietorship
    2. Corporation
    3. Partnership

    Partnerships:
     General
     Limited
     Limited by ability
    Dimensions of an organization
    Structural – tools for organization’s internal features description;
    Contextual- characterize an organization in general.

    Structural dimensions:
     Formalization
     Specialization
     Hierarchy of authority
     Centralization
     Professionalism
     Personnel ratio

    Contextual dimensions:
     Size;
     Organizational technology;
     Goals and strategy;
     Organization’s culture;
     Environment

    Traditional organization:
     Stability and fixed organization
     Work time is fixed; constant work tasks
     Focus on tasks
     Oriented on an individual
     Relative identity
     Focus on individual decision-making
     Focus on organization’s norms, values

    New organization:
     Dynamism and flexible structure;
     Work time is not fixed; time work assingments
     Focus on skills development
     Focus on a group
     Variety of stuff
     Focus on active participation in decision-making process
     Focus on clients’ needs

    System is an interrelated set of elements functioning as a whole

    Four basic elements of organizational system:


    1. Inputs;
    2. Transformation process;
    3. Outputs;
    4. Feedback
    7 S model (T. Peters and R. Waterman)
     Strategy
     Structure
     Systems
     Shared values
     Skills
     Style
     Staff

    Organizational environment is a set of forces surrounding an organization that have the


    potential to affect the way it operates and its access to success.

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