In What Way Does the Task Environment Differ from the General

question 50

Multiple Choice

In what way does the task environment differ from the general environment?

• A)Threats in the general environment are easier to respond to than threats in the task environment.
• B)Forces in the task environment have a more immediate and direct effect on managers than forces in the general environment.
• C)Opportunities in the task environment are less easy to identify than opportunities in the general environment.
• D)Unlike the task environment, the general environment deals with conditions that affect an organization's ability to obtain inputs and dispose of outputs.
• E)Unlike the general environment, the task environment includes the global, economic, sociocultural, political, and legal forces that affect an organization.

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Assets

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Balance Of Payments

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Negative Balance

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Euro

The common currency in most of Western Europe.