Organization Environment Theory

Organization Environment Theory

1. Study of how managers handle relationships of the organization with the external environment.

2. Open Systems theory

   • Daniel Katz, Robert Kahn y James Thompson
   • An organization is an open system that takes resources from abroad and converts them into goods and services that returned to the environment to be purchased by customers.
   • Unlike closed systems that tend to lose the Ability you Control and therefore, disintegrates and dissolves, because they ignore the external environment .

3. The Importance of studying the environment Manifested itself in the 1960s , with the formulation of the theory of open systems and the theory of contingencies.

4. Contingency Theory

   • Tom Burns, Stalker, Paul Lawrence y Jay Lorsch
   • Idea main is that there is an optimal way to organize: The structure of an organization depends on the environment in which it operates
   • The way managers design the hierarchy, choose a control system, or decide how to lead, depends on the characteristics of the organizational environment.