Question

Which statement explains how the task environment differs from the general environment? Opportunities in the task environment are less easy to identify than opportunities in the general environment. Forces in the task environment have a more immediate and direct effect on managers than forces in the general environment. Unlike the general environment, the task environment includes the global, economic, sociocultural, political, and legal forces that affect an organization. Threats in the general environment are easier to respond to than threats in the task environment. Unlike the task environment, the general environment deals with conditions that affect an organization's ability to obtain inputs and dispose of outputs.

Answer 1

Answer:

Forces in the task environment have a more immediate and direct effect on managers than forces in the general environment.

Explanation:

 A general working environment can be defined as an environment that contains the different lineup global, technological, sociocultural, and political forces that that influence or affect various organizations while a task working environment on the other hand entails various units, set, groupings of  forces that has its root(origin) with global suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors in the business world.

while the general environment has an assemblage of outside(external) hold like the environment, technology, economic conditions, demographics, sociocultural forces, political e.t.c the task environment differs from it because it comprises of the various effort put into place by companies to get or acquire necessary materials, like products for making the shoes, bags or revenue(income ) from sales and their ability and knowledge of how  to deliver outputs by exportation of goods and services.

Answer 2

Answer:

B. Forces in the task environment have a more immediate and direct effect on managers than forces in the general environment.

Explanation:

The general environment is the larger environment within which the task environment is embedded. It includes political and legal forces, macroeconomic forces, demographic forces, sociocultural forces, technological forces, and international forces.

Unlike the task environment, the general environment deals with conditions that affect an organization's ability to obtain inputs and dispose of outputs. Unlike the general environment, the task environment includes the global, economic, sociocultural, political, and legal forces that affect an organization.