Organizations do not exist in isolation. They interact with, and are affected by$,$ many different factors. Whe organization operates, it is helpful to understand how a particular element fits into the big picture.

The external environment consists of everything affecting an organization from the outside, which includes affecting the overall context for conducting business$)$ and the task environment $($factors of specific interest$]$

An organization's internal environment relates to conditions, events, and factors affecting the organization f

For each example in the following table, choose whether it belongs in the general, task, or internal environm

Example

Envir

The increasing number of elderly people in the United States, Japan, Italy, and Germany

For a public university, the pool of new PhD graduates seeking jobs as professors

One employee telling another, "It's just the way we do things around here$-$it's our organizational culture."

A worldwide recession

A manager's policy of letting employees have Friday afternoons off during the summer