MGMT 300 Word Scramble

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Question	Answer
all events outside a company that have the potential to influence or affect it	External environments
the rate at which a companys general and specific environments change	Environmental change
an environment in which the rate of change is fast	Dynamic environment
a theory according to which companies go through long, simple periods of stability followed by short periods of dynamic, fundamental change and ending with a return to stability	Punctuated equillibrium theory
the number of external factor in the environment that affect organizations	Environmental complexity
an environment with few environmental factors	Simple environment
an environment with many environmental factors	Complex environment
the abundance or shortage of critical organizational resources in an organization external environment	REsource scarcity
the extent to which managers can understan or predict whioch environmental changes and threads will affect their business	Uncertainty
the economic technological, sociocultural, and political trends that indirectly affect all organizations	General Environments
the customers, competitor, suppliers, industry regulations, and advocacy groups that are unique to an industry and directly afect how a company does a business	Specific environment
indices that show managers level of confidence about future business gorwth	Business confidence indicies
the knowledge, tools, and techniques used to transform input into output	Technology
companies in the same industry that sell similar products or services to cutomers	Competitors
a process for monitoring the competition that involves identifying competition, anticipating their moves, and determining their strengths and weaknesses	Competitve Analysis
companies that provide material, human, financial, and informational resources to other companies	Suppliers
THE DEGREE TO WHICH A COMPANY RELIES ON A SUPPLIER BECASUE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SUPPLIERS PRODUCT TO THE COMPANY AND THE DIFFICULTY OF FINDING other sources for that producr.	Supplier dependence
the degree to which a supplier relies on a buyer because of the importance of that buyer tothe supplier and the difficulty of finding other buyers for its products	Buyer dependence
a transaction in which one party in the relationship benefits at the expense of the other	Oppurtunistic behavior
mutually beneficial, long term excahnges between buyers and suppliers	RElationship behavior
regulations and rules that govern the business practices and procedures of specific industries, businesses and professions	Industry regulations
groups of concerned citizens who band together to try to influence the business practices of specific industries, businesses and professions	Advocacy groups
an advocacy group tactic that relies on voluntary participation by the news media and the advertising industry to get the advocacy groups message out	Public communications
an advocacy group tactic that involves framing issues as public issues	Media advocacy
an advocacy group tactic that involes protesting a companys actions by convincing consumers not to purchase its products or service	product boycott
searching the environment for important events or issues that might affect an organization	Environmental scanning
graphic depictions of how managers believe environmental factors relate to possible organizational actions	Cognitive maps
the events and trends inside an organization that affect managment, employees, and organizational culture	Internal environment
the values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by members of the organization	Organizational culture
stories told by members to make sense of events and changes in an organization and to emphasize culturally consistent assumptions, decisions, and actions	Organizational stories
poeple celebrated for their qualities and acheivments within an organization	Organizational heroes
a bussiness's purpose or reaosn for existing	Company mission
when a company actively defines and teaches organizational values, beliefs and attitudes	Consistent organizational culture
the process of having managers and employees perform new behaviors that are central to and symbolic of the new orginizational culture a company wants to create	Behavioral addition
the process of having managers and employees perform new behavior central to the new organizational culture in place of behaviors that were central to the old organizational culture	Behavioral substitution
visible signs of an organizations culture, such as the office design and layout, company dress code, and company benefits and perks	Visible artifacts

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