Different Types of Forms of Organisation and Their Size and Scope

BUSINESS AND
BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Explanation of different types of forms of organisation........................................................1
P2 Size and scope of various forms of organisation...................................................................3
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................5
P3 Relationship between different functions of organisation.....................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P4 Positive and negative impacts of macro environment on business and its operations...........7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P5 SWOT analysis and Porter's Five Forces...............................................................................9
P6 Explanation that how internal factors relates with external macro factors..........................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Business environment comprises of all factors that are present in external and internal
environment in which organisation operates. This helps organisation to attain sustainable growth
in industry and identify actions or strategies according to factors affecting business and its
operations. This helps organisation to identify current trends and prevailing opportunities in the
market so that business objectives can be achieved. Business environment is one of powerful
determinant as it lay emphasis on identifying emerging trends and competitions so that company
can have competitive advantage in industry (Hamilton and Webster, 2018). SHELL company
deals in oil and gas products in UK and was founded in 1907, situated in London. In this study,
different types of organisations are explained on the basis of public, private and voluntary.
Explanation of different types of organisation in terms of size and scope will also included. This
report will explain relationship between different organisational functions and their link to
organisational structure and objectives. It will identify positive and negative impact of macro
environment on business and its operations with the help of specific examples. In order to
identify strengths and weaknesses conduct internal and external analysis of organisation. At last,
this will include interrelation between internal and external factors of organisation.
TASK 1
P1 Explanation of different types of forms of organisation
Business environment is combinations of internal and external elements which influences
on overall productivity and performance within market place. There are different types of forms
like private, public and voluntary. NHS is public company, SHELL is privately – owned
organisation and Oxfam is non – profit business. All these organisation are providing its products
or services in global market.
Public organisations – This type of organisation is owned and controlled by government and its
operations are wholly managed with support of state (Evans and et. al.,2017). This helps
organisation to be effective in producing and delivering products or services so that living
standards of individuals living in that region can be improved. Examples of such companies are
education, healthcare, etc. which maintains health and well – being of people. NHS is one of the
major reputed public company which provides health and social care in region of Northern
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Ireland which is established in 1948. it provides free medical services and human benefits
services throughout the world. For this company undertakes effective training and development
programs for its staff so that they ate efficient enough to be productive in their area of work. This
alsp improves their ability and skills so that they can provide qualitative services to patients
along with educating them about health issues and remedies (Prajogo, 2016).
Size: There are approximately 1.4 billion employees who works with full dedication to
provide health care services to patients around the globe.
Purpose: The main objective of NHS is to enhance living standards of individual and
society so that their well – being is maintained.
Legal structure: It is owned by local, state and central government and thus lay down
legal structure of the organisation. There are some organisations those functional units are owned
and controlled by Central government, some directed and managed by state level government as
well. There are some firms as well which are established and monitor by local authorities.
Scope: NHS has wider scope as it provides different services like dental care, medical
facilities and optical care.
Private organisations – This type of organisation is owned and controlled by individual or
group of individuals who shares profits equally. They work for making profits and operates
without any type of interference from government or outside parties. In relation to SHELL, it is
concerned with providing oil and gas at global level. It also manufactures different oil products
so that customer of different segments can be targeted easily. The main objective of private firm
is to provide innovative products so that customers expectations can be meet and there is
increase in sales revenue thus profit for the company (Quinlan and et. al., 2019).
Legal structure: It is established and monitor by teams of individuals who is managed by
chair person of the company. There are other board of directors who have stake in the business
and are also responsible for its operations.
Size: SHELL currently have around 6,000 of manpower so that effective in achieving
organisational objectives and come up with creative ways to perform regular activities.
Scope: There is high level of competition for SHELL which provide it larger cope to
increase its business operations and capture larger share of market in industry.
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