Final Exam: Question 1 Although one of the primary focuses in this course has been examining how environments can affect organizations, I believe that it is incredibly to also consider the concept’s antimetabole: how organizations can affect their environments. Firstly, an organization’s decision making processes can help situate it within its environment, thus changing its landscape entirely. In the pursuit of becoming situated, an organization’s competitiveness, successes, and failures have the potential to substantially change the environment or environments in which it exists as well. Through using the example of Silicon Valley startups, I will illustrate how an organization has the potential to greatly affect its environment.
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Similar to the understanding that real organizations are not expected to follow Weber’s ideal-type of bureaucracy, it is understood that the RAM decision making theory is not wholly representative of the typical organization’s decision making process -- the idea that an organization can act perfectly rationally is definitely an ideal and not a reality. Both Weber’s ideal-typical bureaucracy and RAM function well in model and theoretical situations, regardless of their applicability in real-world decision problems. The two share similarities in their focus on linear decision-making processes within an organization, their approaches to problem solving, and views on rationality …show more content…
For example, if you felt that just being a fan of UNC-Chapel Hill’s basketball team was a sufficient enough reason to be a member, your boundary would be much broader than mine. If that was the case, the focus of your paper would be much different than if you only perceived those with an official university affiliation as being a member of UNC-Chapel Hill. As mentioned in the class notes, defining what boundaries are is difficult to do because are social constructs: perceptions of what they are vary by person (3.1 Class Notes,
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Similar to the understanding that real organizations are not expected to follow Weber’s ideal-type of bureaucracy, it is understood that the RAM decision making theory is not wholly representative of the typical organization’s decision making process -- the idea that an organization can act perfectly rationally is definitely an ideal and not a reality. Both Weber’s ideal-typical bureaucracy and RAM function well in model and theoretical situations, regardless of their applicability in real-world decision problems. The two share similarities in their focus on linear decision-making processes within an organization, their approaches to problem solving, and views on rationality …show more content…
For example, if you felt that just being a fan of UNC-Chapel Hill’s basketball team was a sufficient enough reason to be a member, your boundary would be much broader than mine. If that was the case, the focus of your paper would be much different than if you only perceived those with an official university affiliation as being a member of UNC-Chapel Hill. As mentioned in the class notes, defining what boundaries are is difficult to do because are social constructs: perceptions of what they are vary by person (3.1 Class Notes,