COMMERCE 1BA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Closed System, Human Resources, Mass Production

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMMERCE 1BA3
• Professor: Asghar Bokhari

Document Summary

Organizational leaders who believe organizations are completely self- contained. They can do things the way they want to and not pay attention to outside environment. ***they can function apart from and unaffected by what goes on around them*** We have to take inputs from the external environment, transform some of them and send them back into the environment as outputs. Mcmaster example: input (students) come into organization. They teach you and they spit you out. If we are smart and healthy egeod, it comes from external and internal evnronemtns. Technology: the activities, equipment, and knowledge necessary to turn organizational inputs into desired outputs. The inputs that are transformed by the technology come from various segments of environment. Outputs that technology creates are returned to the environment. Different parts of the organization rely on different technologies. Example human resources uses different resources than finance department