Personal Commentary
Upon reading chapter four of this book, I have come to understand that organizations have the tendency of creating or shaping their environments as much as they simply react to them. Although such platform will complicate the analysis of environments, I believe that will still make it all important in terms of having environments that can be directed and controlled.
It has been argued that these complications about the concept of an organization’s environment have a likelihood of explaining the rather surprising disappearance of this concept from the work of some major organization theorists. What has been made clear is that authors who developed and championed the concept of organization environment have more recently produced books that mention the term scantily.
Another point that I have noted in the chapter is that such authors have failed to treat it as a primary concept and have offered no explanation of the concept’s shortcomings. Therefore, the term organizational environment appears much less frequently in the titles of articles in these prominent journals.
I have been able to learn that political actors and external authorities play a critical role when it comes to intervening in the management …show more content…
A practical example is a case whereby the issues of power and influence relationships that are seldom simple, unidirectional, or even entirely clear. Ideally, when the analyses of public organizations are carried out these complexities are appropriately illustrated, and it is through such analyses that the understanding on the values and criteria of public organizations. The author has argued that the analysis of public organizations covered in the book has elaborated on the significant insights that are believed to have been gained from studies of public
Upon reading chapter four of this book, I have come to understand that organizations have the tendency of creating or shaping their environments as much as they simply react to them. Although such platform will complicate the analysis of environments, I believe that will still make it all important in terms of having environments that can be directed and controlled.
It has been argued that these complications about the concept of an organization’s environment have a likelihood of explaining the rather surprising disappearance of this concept from the work of some major organization theorists. What has been made clear is that authors who developed and championed the concept of organization environment have more recently produced books that mention the term scantily.
Another point that I have noted in the chapter is that such authors have failed to treat it as a primary concept and have offered no explanation of the concept’s shortcomings. Therefore, the term organizational environment appears much less frequently in the titles of articles in these prominent journals.
I have been able to learn that political actors and external authorities play a critical role when it comes to intervening in the management …show more content…
A practical example is a case whereby the issues of power and influence relationships that are seldom simple, unidirectional, or even entirely clear. Ideally, when the analyses of public organizations are carried out these complexities are appropriately illustrated, and it is through such analyses that the understanding on the values and criteria of public organizations. The author has argued that the analysis of public organizations covered in the book has elaborated on the significant insights that are believed to have been gained from studies of public