Business and Business Environment

Business and business
environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1) Different type and purpose of organisations ...................................................................1
P2) Size and scope of range of different organisations .........................................................3
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4
P3) Relation between different organisational functional......................................................4
PART 2............................................................................................................................................6
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................6
P4) Positive and negative impacts of macro environment ....................................................6
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................8
P5) Analysis of internal and external strengths and weakness ..............................................8
P6) Interrelation of strengths and weaknesses with external macro factors .......................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Business environment represent the sum total of the internal and external factors that
have effect on functioning and working of an organisation. It include employees and workforce,
customers needs and demands, management of the organisation, supply and demand chain,
business suppliers, owners and partners of company, activities and policies of government, social
and market trends, economic and political change and many more elements which directly or
indirectly effects the productivity and profitability of a firm (Ali, Islam and Rahman, 2019). This
assignment is business and business environment for which three organisations are selected from
different business sector of UK. Aston martin is taken as Private sector organisation, NHS
(National Health Service) is chosen form Public sector and Save the children is selected as
Voluntary sector. This report is based on various types of organisations and also include a
description about their size and legal structure. Beside this connection among different
organisational function and structure is also there. A last, use of PESTEL and SWOT analysis is
also included to identify impact of environment on business.
PART 1
LO 1
P1) Different type and purpose of organisations
An organisations is basically represent a group a people and other assets which are
working together for accomplishment of any specified task. In business environment a wide
range and types of organisations are found having different purpose and legal structure which are
explained below:
Private sector- The organisations or firms belong to this category are managed and run
by private individual or group of individuals and there main purpose is maximization of profit
and expansion of business operation (Ayios, 2018)
Legal structure
On the basis of their legal structure and composition private sector is classified into
following three types:
Sole proprietorship- In this type of private sector organisation all the activities and
functions of an organisations is controlled and managed by single individuals who is solely and
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