Quiz on Environment and Organizational Culture

DigiTech Corporation is a manufacturer of handheld language translation devices. There are many forces in the external environment that influence DigiTech, and its managers are monitoring them closely. One factor is the upcoming federal election. If elected, the leading political candidate has promised to cut corporate taxes to help stimulate the economy. Another factor is the emergence of new competitors with products similar to DigiTech's best-selling model: the Speak-Easy. Advances in the processing speed of computer chips have shortened product development cycles and made it easier for new companies to enter the market. Unfortunately, the recent increase in competition has led to supplier shortages of key components such as microphones and micro-speakers and has left DigiTech scrambling to find new sources!

The external environment of DigiTech consists of which two components?

• primary environment and secondary environment

• specific environment and organizational culture

• primary environment and organizational culture

• general environment and specific environment

DigiTech Corporation is a manufacturer of handheld language translation devices. There are many forces in the external environment that influence DigiTech, and its managers are monitoring them closely. One factor is the upcoming federal election. If elected, the leading political candidate has promised to cut corporate taxes to help stimulate the economy. Another factor is the emergence of new competitors with products similar to DigiTech's best-selling model: the Speak-Easy. Advances in the processing speed of computer chips have shortened product development cycles and made it easier for new companies to enter the market. Unfortunately, the recent increase in competition has led to supplier shortages of key components such as microphones and micro-speakers and has left DigiTech scrambling to find new sources!

The upcoming federal election and the potential change of government involve which factor in DigiTech's external environment?

• economic conditions

• political/legal conditions

• socio-cultural conditions

• demographic conditions

DigiTech Corporation is a manufacturer of handheld language translation devices. There are many forces in the external environment that influence DigiTech, and its managers are monitoring them closely. One factor is the upcoming federal election. If elected, the leading political candidate has promised to cut corporate taxes to help stimulate the economy. Another factor is the emergence of new competitors with products similar to DigiTech's best-selling model: the Speak-Easy. Advances in the processing speed of computer chips have shortened product development cycles and made it easier for new companies to enter the market. Unfortunately, the recent increase in competition has led to supplier shortages of key components such as microphones and micro-speakers and has left DigiTech scrambling to find new sources!

The politician's promise to lower corporate taxes could affect which factor in DigiTech's external environment?

• economic conditions

• political/legal conditions

• socio-cultural conditions

• technological conditions

DigiTech Corporation is a manufacturer of handheld language translation devices. There are many forces in the external environment that influence DigiTech, and its managers are monitoring them closely. One factor is the upcoming federal election. If elected, the leading political candidate has promised to cut corporate taxes to help stimulate the economy. Another factor is the emergence of new competitors with products similar to DigiTech's best-selling model: the Speak-Easy. Advances in the processing speed of computer chips have shortened product development cycles and made it easier for new companies to enter the market. Unfortunately, the recent increase in competition has led to supplier shortages of key components such as microphones and micro-speakers and has left DigiTech scrambling to find new sources!

Rapid changes in ________ conditions have resulted in shorter product development cycles for DigiTech.

• economic

• political/legal

• socio-cultural

• technological

DigiTech Corporation is a manufacturer of handheld language translation devices. There are many forces in the external environment that influence DigiTech, and its managers are monitoring them closely. One factor is the upcoming federal election. If elected, the leading political candidate has promised to cut corporate taxes to help stimulate the economy. Another factor is the emergence of new competitors with products similar to DigiTech's best-selling model: the Speak-Easy. Advances in the processing speed of computer chips have shortened product development cycles and made it easier for new companies to enter the market. Unfortunately, the recent increase in competition has led to supplier shortages of key components such as microphones and micro-speakers and has left DigiTech scrambling to find new sources!

In DigiTech's specific environment, the number of ________ is increasing and there are shortages among its key ________.

• pressure groups; customers

• customers; competitors

• competitors; suppliers

• suppliers; investors

An Internet-based company facing many new competitors and frequent technological breakthroughs is operating in what kind of environment?

• divergent

• static

• flexible

• dynamic

A grocery store that has few components in its environment and minimal need for knowledge about its suppliers or customers is operating under conditions of low ________.

• complexity

• flexibility

• stability

• divergency

An online brokerage company such as E*TRADE that is dealing with many environmental components and requires a high level of knowledge about Internet operations is operating in a highly ________ environment.

• flexible

• static

• stable

• complex

To help managers understand how the environment affects their organizations, the environmental uncertainty matrix sorts industries into four cells based on two dimensions: degree of ________ and degree of ________.

• change; flexibility

• change; complexity

• complexity; impact

• impact; uncertainty

Given a choice, most managers would prefer to operate in Cell 1 of the environmental uncertainty matrix, where the environment is ________.

• simple and stable

• simple and dynamic

• complex and dynamic

• dynamic and flexible