Managing the environment: Strategies for executives in human service organizations

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Schmid, Hillel

Affiliations: School of Social Work, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel

Abstract: This paper delineates strategies for executies in human service organizations, which enable them to effectively manage the turbulent environment in which the organizations act. The administrative strategies are derived from a conceptual framework of organization-environment relations, and are intended to present executives with an overall scheme of the various linkages. Based on this framework, the paper suggests ways for executives to learn, scan and map the opportunities and risks inherent in the environment.

Keywords: Human service organizations, general environment, task environment, organizational domain, resource-dependency, administrative strategies, functional strategies, scanning

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-1986-6406

Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 307-315, 1986