1)Discuss how changing environments affect organizations

1)Discuss how changing environments affect organizations.

2          Describe the four components of the general environment.

3          Explain the five components of the specific environment.

4          Describe the process that companies use to make sense of their changing environments.

5          Explain how organizational cultures are created and how they can help companies be successful.

6 What Would You Do? Case

7 If you were in charge of Waste Management, what would you do?

8 What Really Happened? Solution

Chapter Questions

1. What kind of training and evaluation program would you institute to change Home Depot’s culture?
   
    
2. Recall from the text that there are three levels of organizational culture. What kinds of changes would you make to address each level?
   
    

3. How could an analysis of the company’s external environment help in establishing a new customer-based culture?