Principles of management: Part 2 The environment of management

A set of forces and conditions in the world outside an organization's boundry that affects how it operates and shapes its behavior. 

characteristics of it: Forces change over time and this present managers with opportunities an threats. 

An organization that operates and competes in many different countries

Characteristics

Operation in the global environment is uncertain and unpredictable because it is complex and changes constantly. 

- The set of forces and conditions that originates with suplliers, distributors, customers, and competitors and affect an organization's ability to obtain inputs and sipose of its inputs. 

These forces and conditions influence managers daily. 

Suppliers are individuals and organizations that provide an organization with the input resources it needs to produce goods and services. (input resources are raw material, component parts, employees, capital. 

possible opportunities and threats are: 
- Change in nature, number or type of suppliers (1/n suppliers)

- global oursourcing

belong to the task environment

are organizations that help other organizations sell their goods or products to customers

powerful distributors can limit access to markets through its control of customers in those markets

Individuals and groups that buy the goods and services an organization produces

Organizations that produce goods and services that are similar to a particular organization's goods and services