1.What is the external environment? How does it affect an organization?2.Define and give examples of the sociocultural dimen-sion of the external environment.3.Why is the political-legal dimension of the external environment important for an organization?4.What are some of the elements of the economic di-mension of the external environment?5.What are stakeholders? How are they related to an organization?6.What are the elements of the task environment? Which of these are the most important to an organization?7.Discuss briefly how suppliers and customers may have power over an organization.8.Briefly describe some techniques that are used by or-ganizations to interact with their environments.9.What is meant by uncertainty in the external environment?10.What do organizations try to accomplish when they attempt to manage their external environment?