Describes the factors causing organizational uncertainty

1. Organizational Uncertainty Nitin Reddy Katkam

2. Organizational Uncertainty The ever-changing environment of an organization creates uncertainty. Uncertainty can pose either opportunities or challenges that an organization must deal with in order to succeed.

3. Factors Causing Uncertainty

4. Complexity Environmental complexity is the degree to which an organization is related to the various environmental forces that an organization deals with, such as suppliers, technology, and customers. The effect of multiple environmental forces acting simultaneously creates uncertainty on the organization.

5. Richness Richness is the abundance of resources with an organization’s environment, such as the availability of skilled workers. Poor environments increase uncertainty due to multiple organizations seeking to gain control over limited resources.

6. Dynamism Dynamism is the degree of change of the various environmental factors that affect an organization, such as the availability of raw materials from suppliers. Organizations operating globally have a greater degree of dynamism to deal with, creating more uncertainty

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