Business

Charter two Questions for Review

Juanita Askew

Faulkner University/Preparing You for Success

BBA/3320

Directed Study in Management

Mr. Ron Lambert

9/02/12

CHAPTER 2 QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW:

1. Identify and discuss each major dimension of the general environment and the task environment. The general environment consists of the economic dimension which is considered to be the health and vitality overall of the economic system of the company. The technological dimension is how the environment converts resources into services or products via methods made available. The relationship between business and government and the regulation of business by the government is the political-legal dimension. The task environment is the focus of most organizations and includes competitors, or organizations which compete against each other for business. Customers are the individuals buying the organizations resources. Suppliers sell their own resources to other organizations for use. Regulators have the potential to control or influence organizational practices such as the FDA or EPA. Partnerships or other joint ventures working together are called strategic partners. They are important elements in task environment for many organizations. They try to influence the organizations as well as the activities of government in various ways.

2. Do organizations have ethics? Why or why not? Organizations do not have ethics but the managers or leaders of the company and the employees have their own standards of behavior or ethics. All employees have the opportunity daily to demonstrate the core and fiber of who they are as people. Their values, integrity, beliefs, and character speak loudly through the behavior that they engage in at work. Lapses in the practice of workplace ethics come in all sizes, large and small, far reaching and close to home. Some ethical lapses affect individual employees. Other ethical lapses affect whole work groups, and in particularly egregious...