Assignment on Business and Business Environment- TESCO

UNIT 1 BBE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
LO1.............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Overview of the various types of organisations and the growth of the international
business market...........................................................................................................................1
P2. Details of the organisation and products and services they provide along with the mission,
vision and business objectives and information about the stakeholders.....................................3
LO3.............................................................................................................................................4
P3. Functions of the organisation and its interrelation with organisational objectives and
structures.....................................................................................................................................4
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................6
LO3.............................................................................................................................................6
P4. Identify various macro factors that can affect the operations of the Tesco plc with its
negative and positive impact using the PESTLE analysis..........................................................6
LO4.............................................................................................................................................8
P6. SWOT analysis of the company to identify its relation with external macro factors.........10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
The business environment plays a very crucial and important role for conducting
operations of a business. The effective environment of the work place will motivate the
employees to perform better and achieve their target and goals in a more elaborative and efficient
manner. The organisation taken into context for this report is Tesco plc. It is a retail firm that is
based in UK. In the report, various types of organisations and their purposes based on public,
private and legal structure has been taken into consideration (Apăvăloaie, 2014). Various details
about the vision, mission and business objectives with the details of the stakeholders has been
covered. Also, the interrelation of the various operations in an organisation will be discussed.
Moreover, PESTLE analysis will be carried out to identify the macro factors. In addition,
internal and external assessment has been carried out and SWOT analysis has been done to get
an idea of the strengths and weaknesses of the company.
TASK 1
LO1
P1. Overview of the various types of organisations and the growth of the international business
market.
The business environment plays a very significant role in the operations of the
organisation like Tesco plc. Various factors have been taken into consideration and are been met
to have a better growth on the international level. Different types of the organisations are:
 Private sector: Their vision and mission are to generate the best of the services and get
better profitability to increase and expand their business operations. They are usually
owned by individuals and growth factor is very high. They are the major job generators
and give a good part of their profit for the social causes (Armstrong and et.al., 2015). The
major examples of the private sector companies are Tesco plc, Morrison, Asda etc. They
majorly work for the development of their business firm and to gain better market share.
They provide the basic services like retail, groceries, clothing etc. that are being taken
into consideration by the companies for better growth of their business. Their scope of
growth on the international market is comparatively high as compared to other companies
or organisations of the various sectors. Also, they cater the larger number of customers in
a nation and helps in the social and economic growth of the country.
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 Public sector: The vision and mission of the public-sector company is to cater and work
for the benefit of the people or the citizens in a locality or the country. Their main goal is
to provide their best quality of services to the customers on the minimal cost. They will
usually work in the areas or the sectors of the industries that affect the larger number of
people like health and social care (Bah and Fang, 2015). They will collaborate with the
government to get the best of the support to run their operations. The example of the
public-sector organisations are NHS etc. They will work for the betterment of the health
and social conditions in the society. Also, they will provide the effective health services
on negligible or minimal cost so that everyone can get benefit from it. Many times, their
operations are being funded by the local or national government. They usually work on
the local or national level but can interact with the international organisations to improve
and implement new and better health services.
 Voluntary sector: The organisations of the voluntary sectors work on the personal level,
making them help to the organisation that will help them to increase their internationality.
Their main motto is to provide better services to the people. This will help them to gain a
better productivity and innovate newer services that will help them to gain a better market
share (Botha, Kourie and Snyman, 2014). This will help them to gain high productivity as
well. The voluntary sector will help the employees who are pioneer in their respective
fields and come together to have a better share of the market. Various organisations
working in the voluntary sectors are British Heart Foundation, Oxfam etc. They help to
gain better services and products to the customers to improve their quality of living and
make their life comfortable.
 Legal sector: The organisations of the legal sectors work for the better running of the
legal operation in the country and provide people with legal help, when in need. They
will be associated to the legislation and will look after various sort of cases (Charter,
2017). The major organisations that work in the legal sectors are Solicitors group,
Industrial Law Society etc. They will see through the legal matters of an organisation or
an individual and provide suitable legal aid.
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