Question

Name some factors causing environmental complexity for an organization of your choice. How might this environmental complexity lead to organizational complexity? Explain.

Answer 1

Factors causing environmental complexity and in turn leading to organizational complexity:

There are several factors that cause the complexity in a business entity or an organization. Some of them are as follows,

Evolving technologies - With the vast development in the technologies, the organizations are forced to come up with various business strategies to cope up with the pressures and streamline its operations.

Stiff Competition for Market Opportunities - Every organization thrives for market opportunities by their productivity, quality or brand image, etc.,

To counteract the influence of the enviroment, organizations dive into the four axioms of the traditional organizational science. Those are generally as follows,

1. An organizational pyramid should have a minimum quantity of possible level or rank in the market.
2. The actual control range should be within the limits of the control range.
3. The organization's efficiency depends on exchanging the vital information effectively through the structural links.
4. Forming subsets of smaller elements should be done in such a way that the destruction of steady information links between the elements is minimum.