Question Paper Please answer all questions and transfer your final answers to the answer sheet. 1. Which environment do organizations interact with directly? a Task b. General 2. True or False: The task environment includes international sectors 3. Fill in the blanks: In short, we can say that all organizations in the world need two things from the external environment and these are and 4. Which environmental conditions create a greater need to gather information? a. Complexity b. Change/dynamism c. Heterogeneity d. Instability/turbulence e. All of the above 5. True or False: In general, organizations that operate in more complex and unstable environments will have more complex organizational charts with highly differentiated departments 6. When organizations face uncertainty, all of the following apply except one: a. Their managers have insufficient information about the environment b. Decision making involves clear assessments of costs and probabilities c. Managers can not accurately predict external changes d. The risk of failure increases 7. True or False: The many juice makers we see along the roads of Muscat and in neighborhoods are small businesses that operate in simple and stable environments 8. Universities and oil companies have different external environments. Which of these similar characteristic of both environments? a. Complex environments b. Simple environments c. Stable environments d. Unstable environments