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ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
Sayeed Hasan
MBA, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley
Lecturer, CIU Business School
The Manager: Omnipotent or Symbolic?
• Omnipotent View of Management: The view that managers are directly
responsible for an organization's success or failure.
• External Environment:
Everything outside an
organization’s boundaries
that might affect it. The
uncontrollable environment.
• Internal Environment:
The conditions and forces
within an organization. The
controllable environment.
Components of External Environment
• The Economic Component: Economic growth,
interest rates, exchange rate, recession, inflation,
changes in disposable income, unemployment rates,
stock market fluctuations, business cycle stages, etc.