Technology Impacts Organization Environment

Nowadays, with the development of the technology, the environment of organization becomes more and more complex, more and more new situations appear in the organization.
Organizational environment refers to the forces that can make an impact. Forces made up opportunities and threats. Organizations dose not exist in isolation. It works with the overall environment. The environments have been divided into two main parts as internal environment and external environment.

Internal EnvironmentOrganizations internal environment refers to the elements within the organization. Internally, an organization can be viewed as a resource conversion machine that takes inputs (labor, money, materials and equipment) from the external environment (i.e., the outside world), converts them into useful products, goods, and services, and makes them available to customers as outputs.
● Current employees
● Management
● Trade unions
● Share holders

External EnvironmentIt consists of all the outside institutions and forces that have an actual or potential interest or impact on the organization's ability to achieve its objectives:
● Competitive
● Technological
● Political
● Legal

Through the relationship between the internal environment and external environment we can understand that the external environment impact the internal environment. Meanwhile, the technology becomes the important part in the external environment.
The technology environment advances in organizational performance and impact the nowadays organization and work environment in four aspects.

Hardware trends:
Personal computers have been popularized from 1980s, today’s business becomes more and more rely on the computers, not only B2B (Business to Business) but also the B2C (Business to Customer). The innovation of the hardware makes the business easy and fast. The expansion of the chip also improves the store ability of the database.

Software trends:
Software also becomes the important part in today’s business. In order to improve the efficiency of the business, more and more software has been developed such as the accounting software; HR (Human Resource) management software etc. under these software help the business and management become easy and fast such as easy operation, easy maintain, easy update personal information and easy calculate.

Data trends:
Information becomes the important part in today’s business. The new technology make data and information management easily and safe. Not only the staffs but also the administrator can access the information easily and data management organizes internal facts into data record format, because of the technology environment, information management and digitized media become the main trend in business.

Communication trends:
Telecom as an integral component of IS (Information System) management and the communication-based information systems link organizations to their suppliers and customers, also shifted mainframe-centered computing to network-centric computing.

As above said, the technology impact today’s business in many ways, but the organization environment and the technology environment can not exist in isolation, the combination is necessary and important, the management information system will become the main technology and knowledge in current and future business and work situations.

Reference:
[1] Gary Jhones (2007) Organizational environment Available at: http://futureseekers.blogspot.com/2007/08/organizational-environment.html (Accessed: 31 Jan 2009).