Accounting technicians scheme west africa
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- (vi) Associated Background
| (v) Integration This refers to the quality of the state of collaboration that exists among units or departments within the organisation, that are required to achieve unity of effort in facing the challenges of the environment. (vi) Associated Background This describes the reason and manner in which the organisation was originally formed, its age and philosophy of its founding leaders. The corporate history of an organisation should bean effective induction instrument or weapon to assist a growth programme and to help integrate acquisitions of new knowledge and new employees to the organisation’s culture and identity. An organisation that has a history of respecting and honouring hard work irrespective of tribe, age or education, will have a culture of hard work. It will see hard work as the bedrock of the well- being of the organisation and every individual within the organisation will equally see hard work as the only route to success, and so shall it be. B.4 Environmental Analysis Environmental analysis involves two processes – environmental scanning, and various efforts to understand the trends and implications of changes in the environment for the organisation. Environmental scanning consists of processes used by a manager to monitor events occurring in the external environment of the organisation. The manager monitors events in order to understand the nature of the environment and the changes that are occurring in it. Having generated the appropriate data, it is important to study them in order to understand the implications of the data on the growth and survival of the organisation. Thus, it is important for managers to, first, be aware of the changes occurring in the environment second, to forecast the conditions that may affect the organisation in the future and, thirdly, on the basis of the forecast, take appropriate decisions to achieve efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation. |