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Checkpoint Environmental factors and Individual Mission

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SUSANN CLAEYSSEN

University

Assignment 1

“Summarize in 200-300 words, the four external environmental factors and six internal environmental factors that help organizations achieve optimal function. Include in your response the factors that you feel are most important to the success of a human service organization.”

The four external environmental factors are: economic factors, sociological factors, technological factors, and political and professional factors and the six internal factors are: organizational purpose, mission, and philosophy, Organizational planning, Organizational operations, Human resources, Technological resources, financial resources.

Economic Factors includes knowing what financial resources the company has and where funding is coming from.

Sociological factors include knowing the demographics of the clients in which the agency serves such as age, gender, ethnicity, education, etc. On order to plan and insure that the needs of a diverse group of people are being met.

Political factors include knowing laws and regulations from federal, state and local levels as well as a political climate, or the attitudes of community and local leaders and the general public towards the services provided.

Professional factors in human services include being aware of licensing and certification standards; and staying in good working relations with these agencies.

Technological factors in human services can mean knowing equipment and software or new treatment approaches.

Organizational purpose, mission, and philosophy means having a good mission statement or purpose because this is what motivates, and makes people understand the mission and goal of the company.

Organizational planning means to use available data to determine and plan current and future services in order to meet the needs of the people it...