Values, customs, and tastes can change, and management must change also. Technological conditions include the changes that are occurring in technology. D. Influence on management practice. Organizations are not self-sufficient. They interact with and are influenced by their environment.
Many environmental forces are dynamic and create considerable uncertainty for managers.
The greater the environmental uncertainty an organization faces, the more the environment limits the manager's options and freedom to determine destiny. The omnipotent view dominates management theory because it reinforces the belief that managers can control organizational outcomes. Academics, business executives, and the general public do not like to believe that things happen by mere chance. The omnipotent view confirms that organizational successes and failures can be attributed to managerial actions. Managers exist, then, to accept the praise or the blame for the organization's success or failure.