Which statement explains how the task environment differs from the general environment? Opportunities in the task environment are less easy to identify than opportunities in the general environment. Forces in the task environment have a more immediate and direct effect on managers than forces in the general environment. Unlike the general environment, the task environment includes the global, economic, sociocultural, political, and legal forces that affect an organization. Threats in the general environment are easier to respond to than threats in the task environment. Unlike the task environment, the general environment deals with conditions that affect an organization's ability to obtain inputs and dispose of outputs.

Forces in the task environment have a more immediate and direct effect on managers than forces in the general environment.

Explanation:

 A general working environment can be defined as an environment that contains the different lineup global, technological, sociocultural, and political forces that that influence or affect various organizations while a task working environment on the other hand entails various units, set, groupings of  forces that has its root(origin) with global suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors in the business world.

while the general environment has an assemblage of outside(external) hold like the environment, technology, economic conditions, demographics, sociocultural forces, political e.t.c the task environment differs from it because it comprises of the various effort put into place by companies to get or acquire necessary materials, like products for making the shoes, bags or revenue(income ) from sales and their ability and knowledge of how  to deliver outputs by exportation of goods and services.

trade allows people to focus on one kind of production and trade for their other needs. ( d.)

1   all nations face the problem of scarcity because there are limited resources and unlimited wants. nations do not have enough factors of production to produce everything that their population wants. entrepreneurial resources initiate businesses to make new goods and services; labor resources produce goods and services.

2 there are four factors of production: natural resources, labor resources, capital resources, and entrepreneurial resources. natural resources are raw materials from nature that are used to produce goods. trees, water, and grains are natural resources. some natural resources, such as wheat and cattle, are renewable

3 wants

things that you do not need to have in order to survive, but would like to have

needs

things that you must have in order to survive

goods

physical products

services

tasks that a business perform for customers

resources

items that people can use to make or obtain what they need or want

determine

to settle or decide by choice of alternatives or possiblities

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