Business and its environment

1. Business and its
Environment

2. Business which neglects its
environment maybe freed from its
responsibilities to society, but it is
imprisoned by its own parochial
thinking.

3. Culture is an assimilation of
traditions and patterns of life.

4. There is no development without
change and progress in the
organization.
 Development is only possible
when individuals interact with
their environment.

5. Culture and its effects on
the Organization

6. There are limitations in adapting
to environment.
One such limitation is culture.

7. “Behind all these things are the
experiences of people and the enduring
aspects of their culture. Culture is the
accumulation of ideas, beliefs and skills
that a group possesses. In other words,
its way of life.”
-Filipino Author

8. Value is a set of principles or
standards.

9. The Individual and the
Environment

10. “Environment refers to the people and
conditions external to the organizations
which affect and are affected by the
organization.”
-Edgar F. Huse and James L. Bowditch

11. The individual cannot be understood
part from his environment. – William
Scott & Terence Mitchell

12. While people develop their own
values, some of them avoid ethical
questions or remain neutral. Hence,
there is a need to develop standards
of right or wrong to guide them I the
conduct of their business affairs.

13. Factors affecting the
Environment

14. There are many factors that affect the
environment of an organization.
Counting them which are not visible is
difficult.
“There is no best way to approach the
problem of designing the organization
to fit the environment; rather, it must
be done recognizing the
contingencies with the environment.”
– Huse & Bowditch

15. Work Situation Characteristics are factors in
work environment of the individuals.
Do colleagues encourage low productivity?
Do supervisor reward high performance, or
do they ignore it? Does the organization
culture foster concern for members of the
organization – or does it encourage cold and
indifferent formality?

16. Work environment involves tools and
workplaces needed to maximize work
accomplishments and employees’
satisfaction.
The employee may accept those factors
affecting his environment for the value his
organization might give them. Thus, work
environment influences worker’s job
satisfaction.

17. “The fact that human behavior is a result of
both personal and environmental
characteristics means the changes in either
the personnel or the environment in which
they operate. Further, a manager seeking
to produce change must consider that,
because there is an interaction between the
person and the environment is likely to
produce changes in the individuals who
work in it.”
-Reitz

18. No organization exists in isolation. It
has to contribute interact with its
environment. Such interaction
operates within organized
environment patterns which stimulate
developments in the organization.

19.  In essence, management must control its
environment.
“Successful executives are people in
control. They are in control of their
environment and most important, of
themselves. A primary rule for staying in
control is that when everything begins to
slip and everything begins to get the better
of you, the wisest course of action is to
stop, or to say nothing until you once again
have control. Then proceed.”
–Glendon Powell

20. This is a situation a manager could manage
if his organization kept pace with the
development in its environment, particularly
about himself.

21. “Always keep in mind that the person in
control stands the best chance of achieving
his goals. If you know you have a strong
and/or quick temper, begin to take action to
curb it. Otherwise you will never really be a
controller”
-Powell