Developing Organizations

Abstract

Organizations, as was made apparent in the preceding chapter, must be seen within a wider context — that is, an economic and political environment. A stable environment will tend to make for a stable internal structure, the development of routine ways of handling problems, systems of control and so on. Little change or development as such may be evident in such organizations. On the other hand, where economic conditions change frequently; and there is a general lack of certainty about the environment, an organization tends to adapt various systems, becoming more flexible in its responsiveness to externally imposed change.