Business and Business Environment Assignment - Sainsbury Plc

Business and Business
Environment

Contents
INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................... 3
TASK 1................................................................................................................... 3
P1: Different types and purpose of organisations...............................................3
P2: Size and scope of a range of different type of organisations........................6
TASK 2................................................................................................................... 8
P3 Relationship between different organisational functions and their link to
organisational objectives and structure .............................................................8
TASK 3................................................................................................................... 9
P4: Positive and negative impacts the macro environment has on business
operations .......................................................................................................... 9
TASK 4................................................................................................................. 11
P5 Internal and external analysis of organisations in order to identify strength
and weakness .................................................................................................. 11
P6 Strengths and weakness interrelated with external macro factors for the
company .......................................................................................................... 12
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................... 13
REFERENCES........................................................................................................ 15

INTRODUCTION
Business Environment comprises of internal as well as external factors which can
influences organisational functions either in negative or positive way. Business environment
consisting of several influencing factors such as suppliers, investors, owner and competitions,
up gradation of existing technology, government laws and regulations etc. For this,
management play an important role in making suitable plans and profitable decisions for an
organisation (Business Environment, 2017). The main purpose of present assignment report
is to identify the influence of business environment on business functions of an organisation.
The present report is based on three organisation including private, public and voluntary
which are Sainsbury Plc, National Audit office and Cancer Research UK respectively. The
whole assignment report is based on Sainsbury Plc which is private company and become
second largest chain of supermarkets in UK. The project includes size, scope and purpose of
different kinds of organisation along with the linkage of various departments to achievement
of organisational goals. In addition with this, the project also covers PESTLE, SWOT
analysis and their interconnection that can affect the decision making process.
TASK 1
P1: Different types and purpose of organisations
Business environment implies the majority of the outer and inward factors that affect
on organizational activities, for example, clients, workers, rules and regulations, import-
export policy etc. There are significant three kinds of organisations, for example, public,
private and voluntary. All has their own purposes and intention to accomplish better results
inside pre-decided time frame. Every type of organisations along with their purposes is
briefly explained as under:
Private company: It is valuable part of an economy of nation due to contributing
maximum output in form of generating large employment opportunities, paying huge taxes
etc. It is owned by two or more person with the purpose of making huge profits. Sainsbury is
a private company which is engaged in retailing sector in UK.

Purpose: The main purpose behind Sainsbury Plc is to give standard quality of
products at a reasonable cost. Organization believes in being reasonable for their environment
and providers (Bovee, Thill and Raina, 2016).
Legal structure:
• Partnership: When at least two individual arrived in consent to share a common goal
for accomplishing objectives. Such structure enables them to share both the benefit and
misfortune and even took decision together.
• Sole proprietorship: It is the least difficult type of business. These are possessed and
controlled by a single person who is considered in charge of the considerable number of
benefits and losses of the firm.
• Limited organization: This hybrid structure directs partners and proprietors to restrain
their liabilities. It implies that the individuals are not in charge of any losses or obligations
until the point that their illegal act can't be demonstrated (Dahan and et. al., 2010).
• Multinational organization: MNC organizations are worked everywhere scale in
excess of one nation in which their central office is situated in a particular nation and its
branches works in different nations.
• Global organization: In this, an organization advertises their products in different
nations under a solitary brand name. Head office is in charge of making policies and strategy
for entire organisation.
• Transnational organization: This sort of organization additionally works in excess of
one nation yet without a settled headquarters.
Legal structure of Sainsbury is limited company.
Public organisation: These associations give products and services to the general
public without stressing much on benefits. These kinds of associations are directed and
controlled by the government. Shares of such associations can be allotted directly to the
general public. In this, National Audit Office is perfect example of public sector organisation
which is responsible to conduct audit of central government departments.
Purpose of Public organisation