Organization & Environment

1. Any system can ultimately reach the same final state by different means and from different starting points
4. the ability, capacity, or authority to control or influence people events or systems
9. being contingent on something else
11. The process by which social processes, obligations, or actualities take on rule-like status in social though or action
12. System of connections

1. Components outside the organization that can impact it
2. Ability to change based on outside influence
3. Imports some form of energy from external environment
5. belief that an action, rule, or government is lawful, fair, just, and entitled to obedience
6. the act of continuing to exist
7. Supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively
8. Preparation for an unknown future event
10. Lens for studying organizations
12. Agreed upon behaviors