Sustainable Business Models and Practices

This assignment requires you to delve into the crucial relationship between business models and sustainable practices. You will examine different frameworks and strategic approaches used by businesses to incorporate environmental and social considerations into their operations. The analysis should consider the impact of factors like technological advancements, regulatory changes, and consumer preferences on the development and implementation of sustainable business models.

Business and Business Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Different types and purpose of an organisation and their legal structure...............................1
P2 Size and scope of different type of Organisation....................................................................3
P3 Different Organisational functions and their interconnection with organisational objectives
and structure.................................................................................................................................6
TASK 2(PPT)..................................................................................................................................9
P4 Pestle analysis of company and also describe the macro environmental factors...................9
P5 Swot analysis..........................................................................................................................9
P6 Strength and weaknesses of Jaguar and its macro environmental factors..............................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Business environment includes all the external & internal factors which affects companies’
structure & policies such as employees, management, government policies, competitors and
market trends. This report gives details of different types of organisations which is private
organisation (Jaguar Land Rover), public organisation (Metropolitan Police) and voluntary
organisation (Oxfam). Further, this report will elaborate purpose & legal structure of these three
organisations.
Furthermore, this report will include scope & size of this organisation. After that this report
explains relationship between functions & objectives of organisation and interrelation among
scope & objective of organisation. In addition, the report will outline different type of
organisational structure and their relationship with organisational functions. Moreover, this
report includes PESTLE & SWOT analysis of Jaguar Land Rover. This repost will also explain
all the macro environmental factors affecting the firm. At last the report analyses external &
internal factors of company and its impact on decision making process of the firm.
TASK 1
P1 Different types and purpose of an organisation and their legal structure
Private Organisation (Jaguar Land Rover)
Private sector organisations are run & controlled by individuals and not by government
with the aim of profit maximisation (Bull and et.al., 2016) Private organisation contributes most
to the economy of the country by giving employment to large number of people. Private
organisations are not controlled by government but they have to follow all the regulations &
guidelines given by government of the country in which it is situated (Pearson, 2017). Main
purpose of operating a private organisation is to earn money and reinvest it for the further
expansion of business.
Jaguar Land Rover is a private organisation which is a multinational car manufacturer
& retailer offers luxury vehicles to all the countries across the world. It is British Brand
headquartered at Whitley, England & Coventry. Aim of company is to manufacture light
weighting electronic vehicles that protect the environment and to encourage individuals to
purchase electronic vehicles.
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Purpose of Jaguar Land Rover to become a largest brand in car manufacturing industry
by manufacturing unique designs and to contributing more to the country’s economy by
generating employment and more revenue.
Jaguar Land Rover has a multi-tier legal structure and it follow its governance structure
in a most effective manner. Its Legal structure includes strategic board, Discloser committee,
Audit committee and Remuneration committee.
Public Organisation (Metropolitan Police)
Public Organisations are companies or firm which is owned & controlled by government
not for earning profit but for societies welfare. Purpose of Public organisation is to offer various
public services such as health & safety, education, water, infrastructure, electricity and military
for the welfare of society(Hamilton and Webster, 2018). Most of the funding in this firms are
paid through the taxes collected by government. A public company can be converted into private
company by removing governments control from it and vice versa.
Metropolitan Police is a public organisation which offers safety services to the citizen of
London. It is a police force which enforces laws in UK and perform certain services as to protect
royal families and citizens from the terrorist attacks (Dyllick and Muff 2016).
Purpose of Metropolitan Police is to ensure safety & security of general public of London, to
prevent crime and to enforce the law fairly.
Legal Structure of Metropolitan Police is governed by Mayor of London and it has three
tier structure which includes Her Majesty Inspection of constabulary, Independent Police
Complaints Commission and Directorate of Audit, Risk & Assurance. Mayor of London regulate
this through Mayor's office of policing & crime.
Voluntary Organisation (Oxfam)
Voluntary organisations are independent organisations operated with the aim of welfare
of society and it is a non-profit organisation. This organisation's purpose is to benefit society
without a motive of profit maximisation (Prajogo, 2016). Voluntary organisations contribute to
in the development of country. Charities, Social welfare organisations, Communities groups &
clubs are part of Voluntary organisation.
Oxfam is a non-profit organisation operated by a group of individuals with the aim of
eradicating poverty & disaster relief. The company does not operate with the motive of profit, all
its profits are reinvested in the development of the organisation and its people.
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Purpose of Oxfam is to reducing poverty by encouraging people to work & by providing them
employment and disaster relief.
Legal structure of Oxfam has two tier structure which constitute Executive board & Board
of supervisor (Upward and Jones 2016). Executive board execute all the working of the
organisation and also lead supervisors board and appoint the supervisor. Oxfam has 19 affiliates
and 2 public engagement offices.
P2 Size and scope of different type of Organisation
Private Company (Jaguar Land rover)
Mission-Mission of the Jaguar Land rover is to be the best in every area of their business. They
will accomplish this by providing the most exceptional customer experience through giving the
best place to work and through strongly supporting their community. Working together as a one
team (Hillary, 2017).
Vision- Jaguar Land rover holds a responsibility to foster an environment which empowers
employees and promotes innovation, relationships, and growth. They are continuously striven to
inspire consumer confidence by supplying a transparent atmosphere and offering a premium auto
mobile product.
Core values
 They believe that Business should be done in a fair, honest and transparent way with
integrity.
 Understanding and respecting humanity between customer and colleagues.
 They provide excellence in their work quality.
 They believe in showing unity among management and colleagues and do their work
with responsibility.
Business objective: The objective is to provide the highest business standards possible in the
quality of their cars, products and services to their customers.
Product and services- Jaguar Land Rover currently sells vehicles and advanced car models
under their Jaguar and Land Rover marques. They deal in Luxury vehicles and off-road vehicles.
They have friendly sales and service infrastructure to support their aspirational brands.
Size- According to statistics data of US in January 2019 the market share of Land Rover was
slightly below 3.5 percent and the market share of Jaguar was 1.3 percent.
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Scope-Over the next five years the Jaguar Land rover is planning to support 25 projects run by
the British and the International federation of red cross societies. Although international in
scope, the partnership is managed in Britain. There is a project in the UK. Jaguar Land Rover is
donating £2m to BRC's to give support at Home programme, which is intended to reach 13,000
people, primarily in rural areas.
Organisational structure: The Organisational structure of Jaguar Land rover is comprises of
divisional and functional units which are Design, Business Expansion, Quality and automotive
safety, Human Resource and purchasing, Corporate and Strategy, Manufacturing, Legal, PR
communications and Special vehicle operations.
Legal structure:There is separate Legal department of Jaguar Land rover which looks after the
rules, polices, code of conduct of the Company.
Public Company Metropolitan police
Mission -The mission of the Metropolitan Police Department is to safeguard the District of
Columbia and protect its residents and visitors by providing the highest quality of police service
with a commitment to do their work with full compassion and integrity. Through upholding their
city's motto Justitia Omnibus which means Justice for all.
Vision- The vision of the Metropolitan Police is to make London a safer place to live. To be the
best crime fighters. To earn the trust and confidence of every community. To take pride in the
quality of their service.
Core values- The core values of Metropolitan police is to do their work with Professionalism,
Integrity, compassion and courage.
Business objective- To improve their police service to the public through the integration of the
Department's people, technology and business systems (Mellor, 2018). There focus is to reduce
citizen complaints and officer misconduct as well as to improve documentation and uses of force
and field supervision.
Service- The Metropolitan Police Service is formerly responsible for law enforcement in the
Metropolitan Police District, which currently consists of the 32 London boroughs.
Size- The total Police force is 31,075 full-time and special constables’ officers are 2,763. Total
stations are 180. The met police serve more than 80 million people across diverse cities widely
spread over 620 square miles.
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Scope-Metropolitan areas are based on agglomerative, which include the built-up area and the
commuter belt around a city. City to city cooperation as well as structure cooperation are crucial
points to be taken into account in this respect.
Organisational structure: Organisational structure of Metropolitan police is divided into four
main directorates, each one is allocated with different responsibilities (Sammut‐Bonnici and
Galea, 2015). These are Front-line Policing , Met Operations , Specialist Operations and six
civilian staffed support departments.
Legal structure: Legal structure of MET is based on National Police Chiefs’ Council which
helps the firm in managing service response with regard to threats like, crime, national
emergencies and terrorism. NPCC is decision making forum for organisation.
Voluntary Company (Oxfam)
Mission- Mission of Oxfam is to bring a positive change in the lives of people who lives below
poverty line. To create a world in which everyone is valued and treated equally.
Vision- Oxfam vision is to see world without poverty. They envisage a world in which people
can influence decisions that affect their lives, can enjoy their rights and assume their
responsibilities.
Core values- There five core values are Accountability, Empowerment, Equality, Inclusiveness
and Sustainability to drive everything they do at Oxfam.
Business objective-The objective of Oxfam is to create lasting solutions to the injustice of
poverty. They are part of a global movement for change that empowers people to create a future
that is secured and free from poverty.
Services- They help in building fair livelihoods. Oxfam helps in securing the rights of people
living in poverty to food, income security and to provide decent work in a route out of poverty.
Size- Oxfam has 20 independent charitable Organisations focusing on the alleviation of global
poverty. Local communities are in more than 90 Countries.
Scope- Together with their local partners, Oxfam works in more than 90 countries as part of the
Oxfam International confederation in order to tackle the root causes of poverty and respond to
emergencies.
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Organisational structure: Oxfam organisational structure is geographical as they work around
the globe. The charity is controlled by a chairwoman who is in-charge of a number of trustees
who makes the decisions in the company. Oxfam organisational structure is flatter and it doesn't
take long.
Legal structure: Oxfam ownership is in hand of Oxfam trustees. The trustees of Oxfam are
ultimately responsible for the law of charity, its assets and activities. They form the Council of
Trustees which is the governance body of the Association of Oxfam.
P3 Different Organisational functions and their interconnection with organisational objectives
and structure
Different Organisational functions of Jaguar Land rover
 Customer experience -This function helps Jaguar Land rover in making them fit for the
future and enabling them to delight customers.
 Product marketing -Product marketing of Jaguar Land rover helps in promoting their
brand and to drive their Auto mobile industry. Product marketing focuses on product
type, customer needs (functional needs), customer type and geographical location.
 Market performance – To look out market performance of Jaguar Land Rover the
performance analyst of Jaguar Land rover continuously doing market analysis and
working on improving their market performance (Saebi, Lien and Foss, 2017).
 Customer service – This function is important for Jaguar Land Rover to strengthen their
brands, define outstanding products and to drive towards success.
 Planning- Planning director of Jaguar Land rover is responsible for launch and volume
planning, strategy planning and all aspects of the customer journey.
 Marketing communication- The Jaguar Land Rover success derives from better
responding to their customers’ needs that are changing as quickly as the communications
landscape is being modified.
Structure of Jaguar land rover
The structure of Jaguar Land rover consists of Divisional and functional departments like
Design, Business Expansion, Quality and automotive safety, Human Resource and purchasing,
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Corporate and Strategy, Manufacturing, Legal, PR communications and Special vehicle
operations.
Interconnection of Organisational Functions with Organisational structure
Design department is interconnected with Customer experience function of Jaguar Land
rover. It provides Design Specification and market trends of customer preference. The design
department innovates designs according the Customer experience and choices they made in the
Auto mobile product (Kolk, 2016).
Business expansion department of Jaguar Land rover is linked with the Planning
function. To enhance the business proper planning is needed (vom Brocke, Zelt and Schmiedel,
2016). Strategies is being made for business expansion by the planning function.
Quality and automotive safety department of Jaguar Land rover is linked with the
Customer service function. It is giving service through improving their auto mobile quality
service. By giving safety and comfort driving in their car models they are fulfilling their business
objective.
Human Resource and purchasing department of Jaguar Land Rover is connected with
the Marketing communication function for better responding to their Customer needs. There
purchasing department is being working on continuously basis and purchase those models which
suits customers prefer ability.
Corporate and strategy department is linked with the planning function of Jaguar Land
rover. It makes strategy according to plans (Evans,Vladimirova and Holgado, 2017). Planning
and making strategies is a base for Jaguar Land rover to drives towards success and achieving
business objectives.
Manufacturing department of Jaguar Land rover is directly connected to market
performance function. Manufacturing of models is being done in correct way by the Organisation
it will directly affects the performance and sales of auto mobile products of Jaguar Land Rover.
Legal department of Jaguar Land rover is directly connected to all functions of the
Organisation because every function has its own rules, polices, code of conduct which is in
control of Legal department.
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PR communication department of Jaguar Land rover is linked with the marketing
communication function which enables the better communication and interaction with customers
about their needs. It will fulfil Jaguar Land rover objective which is customer satisfaction.
Interconnection of Organisational Functions with Organisational objectives
Customer experience function of Jaguar Land rover helps in attaining organisational objectives
of the Company. Through customer experience company got an idea about what are the
Customer choice and demand in auto mobile products. They manufacture there models in
accordance with the Customer experience(Marginson, 2018). This leads to increase in sale and
simultaneously in profit margin of the Jaguar Land rover.
Planning function helps in making and formulating market strategies of the Jaguar Land rover.
The direction is given to manufacturing department according to the formulated plan which is
helpful in increasing turnover of the Company.
Advantages and Disadvantages of interconnection of Organisational Functions with
Organisational structure
Advantages
 The advantage of a functional and structure organization of Jaguar Land rover is that
grouping employees by specialization ensures a reliable level of departmental
competency (Chang, 2016)
 Organizational specialization is helpful for Jaguar Land rover operational speed. It will
help in increasing Company's efficiency.
 Segregating the workforce according to function helps the Jaguar Land rover in clarifying
organizational responsibility and allocation of tasks (Foss and Saebi, 2017). This is
helpful to eliminate duplication of assignments that waste time and efforts.
Disadvantages
 Due to segregating functioning department work culture in Jaguar Land rover it is
harmful for organisation because employees in different teams do not get the opportunity
to meet and share perspectives with one another which can be harmful for the progress of
the Company in the long run.
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 There is lack of coordination because communication becomes increasingly dominating
in Jaguar Land rover due to management structure of the Company (Chang, 2016).
Employees may underperform or even fail because they have no institutionally
acknowledgement way of communication needs and issues to other functional groups that
may have helped.
 There is disadvantage of functional organisation of Jaguar Land rover closely related to
the failure of functional groups to cooperate with one another. There is possibility of
disputes among the employees and disagreements over goals and budgetary decisions.
TASK 2(PPT)
P4 Pestle analysis of company and also describe the macro environmental factors
Incorporated in Power point presentation
P5 Swot analysis
Incorporated in Power point presentation
P6 Strength and weaknesses of Jaguar and its macro environmental factors
Incorporated in Power point presentation
CONCLUSION
This report outlined different types of organisations and their purpose, Legal structure,
size & scope. Further the report outlined interrelationship between organisational objectives and
functions. Furthermore, the report outlined interrelationship between size, scope and
organisations objectives. Moreover, report summarises different types of business structure and
their relationship with organisational functions. Furthermore, report summarises PESTLE &
SWOT analysis with the help of power point presentation and at last this report concluded with
external & internal analysis of Jaguar Land Rover and its impact on decision making.
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