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Adapting to the environment is one of the strategies used by organisations to cope with the high environmental uncertainty. List three strategies used in this exercise.

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Environmental characteristics that influence uncertainty depends upon the number of factors that affect the organisation and the extent to which those factors change. In effect, when external factors change rapidly, the organisation experiences very high uncertainty.

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The 'achievement culture' emerges when an organisation values competitiveness, personal initiative and achievement .

The external environment creates uncertainty for organisation managers, who must respond by designing the organisation to adapt to the environment or influence the environment.

There are two basic strategies for coping with high environmental uncertainty: adapting the organisation to the changes in the environment and influencing the environment to make it more compatible with organisational needs.

Name the various factors that can be observed to interpret an organisation's culture.

The internal culture of an organisation must fit the needs of the external environment and its strategies. When this fit occurs, highly committed employees create a high-performance organisation that is tough to beat.

Organisations are forming partnerships as a way of responding to the tough global competition, the constant changing technology and the shifting government regulations. Managers in these partnering organisations shift from adversarial orientation to a partnership orientation. Describe the various characteristics of a partnership orientation.