Internal Environment

Internal Environment

The internal business environment is also referred to as the microenvironment and is controlled by the organization’s activities. The internal environment is the source of a company’s competitive advantage, which is achieved through the implementation of strategies (Bateman et al., 2018). The management influences the internal environment through decision-making and the performance of tasks in the company. The managers are categorized into the top, middle and frontline managers. In performing actions and making decisions that enhance a company’s internal environment, managers require technical, conceptual, and decision skills and interpersonal and communication skills.

Summary

In The Entanglement Of Leader Character And Leader Competence And Its Impact On Performance, Sturm et al. explore the relationships between a leader’s competence and the effectiveness of a company’s performance relating to the internal environment. Sturm et al. Explain the past leadership studies focused on the leaders’ competencies in promoting effective organizational performance and neglected the role of the leader’s character in promoting effective performance. For this reason, the research studies the identified research gap by exploring the character-competence entanglement. This concept reflects the relationship between character and organizational performance over time. Sturm et al. established that a higher degree of entanglement represents persistent relations and mutually reinforcing impact between the highly developed leader character and competence. On the other hand, the low entanglement levels presented low performance. The key finding from this study is that a high level of degree of character-competence entanglement results in remarkable performance over time. This research illustrates the impact of a leaders’ character on the performance of the internal environment. Therefore, leaders have a crucial role to play in driving organizational performance through formulating and implementing strategies.

Discussion

The relationship between a company’s internal environment and the type of leadership implemented in the company features a high correlation. The manager’s interpersonal, information, and decision roles are crucial in developing an organization’s internal environment. The interpersonal roles include leader, liaison, and figurehead. The leader role entails staffing, training, and motivating the employees to attain the company’s goals (Bateman et al., 2018). Notably, this feature is tied to the leader’s character, as illustrated by Sturm et al. For this reason, charismatic leaders are likely to feature high organizational performance. Liaison entails maintaining a network of outside networks and alliances that offers crucial information. This feature is essential in providing the company with the needed links to enhance performance. Figureheads entail the leader’s embodiment of the organizational culture in inspiring the employees to adopt its values. The information roles entail collecting vital data to enhance the company’; internal environment. A manager whose character traits include work ethic is likely to continuously gather information from the external environment that will promote decision-making (Chiniara & Bentein, 2016). Decision roles entail entrepreneurship, whereby  a risk take would exploit opportunities in e the firm’s external environment leading to improved performance of the internal environment. Disseminators entail information sharing in promoting organizational learning,

Biblical Integration

“Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; They will not serve before officials of low rank.—Proverbs 22:29 (Bible, 1996). This verse illustrated the importance of good leadership skills in enhancing the performance of the internal environment. The Bible recognizes the importance of proficiency and competency in serving the high ranks. For this reason, leaders should be skilled in managing a company’s internal operations.

References

Bateman, T.S., Snell, S.A., Konopaske, R. (2018). Management (5th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.

Bible, K. J. (1996). King James Bible. Proquest LLC.

Chiniara, M., & Bentein, K. (2016). Linking servant leadership to individual performance: Differentiating the mediating role of autonomy, competence and relatedness need satisfaction. The Leadership Quarterly, 27(1), 124-141.

Sturm, R. E., Vera, D., & Crossan, M. (2017). The entanglement of leader character and leader competence and its impact on performance. The Leadership Quarterly, 28(3), 349-366.

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DB Forum 2: Internal Environment

Discussion post about internal environments in business. Chapters three and five of textbook contain information regarding this.

Internal Environment

Textbook is Bateman, T.S., Snell, S.A., Konopaske, R. (2018). Management (5th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.

2 peer reviewed articles are required as sources in addition to the Bible.