Business and Business Environment - General Motors

Business
and
Business
Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................ 3
TASK 1........................................................................................................................ 3
P1 Explicate assorted types and purposes of public, private and voluntary organization with their legal
structure..................................................................................................................... 3
P2 Explicate size and Scope of different type of organisations..................................................6
TASK 2........................................................................................................................ 8
P3 Relationship between different organisational functions and how they link to organisational
objectives and structure.................................................................................................. 8
TASK 3......................................................................................................................... 9
P4 Positive and negative aspects of macro environment..........................................................9
TASK 4....................................................................................................................... 11
P5 Internal and external analysis of specific organisation in order to identify strengths and weaknesses
.............................................................................................................................. 11
P6 Strengths and weaknesses interrelate with external macro factors........................................12
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................. 14
REFERENCES............................................................................................................ 15

INTRODUCTION
Business environment refers to aggregation of different factors, some of these factors can
be controlled but certain may not be controllable and creates impact on growth, performance and
profitability. These factors comprise of both internal as well as external which have relevant
impact on operations of organization. Internal factors contain employees, suppliers, shareholders
and customers while external factors encompasses of technology, economic conditions,
government rules and competitors (Anıl and Ficici, 2017). This report comprises of General
Motors, it is an American multinational organization which designs, manufactures and sells
automobiles and spare parts. They are headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, America. This report
deals with different types of organizations, they are voluntary, public and private along with their
legal structure. Scope and size of various organizations are explained. Furthermore,
interrelationship of different organizational functions is provided and ways in which they are
linked with organizational structure and objectives. Apart from this, macro environments are
critically identified with usage of precise examples. Internal and external analysis is done to
categorize their strengths and weaknesses. At last external macro factors are explained along
with their strengths and weaknesses.
TASK 1
P1 Explicate assorted types and purposes of public, private and voluntary organization with their
legal structure.
Different types of organizations carry out their operations to enhance economy of
country. These entities comprises of public, private and voluntary organizations. Their purpose
and legal structure is present below:
Public Organisations: These organizations are wholly or partially owned, managed and
controlled by government as well as other entities. These organizations carry out their
functionalities and operations by taking into consideration welfare of people and delivery of
services and products so that they can furnish benefits to society (Burayidi, 2013). These
organizations are responsible for providing benefits to society in terms of health services,
transportation, infrastructure, communication and education. Consider Crown Prosecution

Service, it is a public prosecution organization which is present in Wales and England for
carrying out criminal prosecutions.
Legal Structure: Public organizations are either completely or partially executed by
government. Basically, they are of 3 types which include local, state and national government
(Charfeddine, 2016). Each has their own set of policies and regulations. Legal structure of these
enterprises depends on government which is ruling at present moment and is responsible for
controlling and managing them. Therefore they are categorized into:
(A) Local organisation: These organizations are controlled and administered by local
government and they need to adhere to rules and regulations set by them.
(B) State organisation: These organizations are controlled, managed and owned by
authority of State. They need to comply to policies made by them so that they do not
land into any kind of trouble .
(C) Central organization: They are those enterprises which are maintained by central
government and they are responsible for controlling operations, actions and activities
conducted by them.
Purpose: CPS (Crown Prosecution Service), it is a public prosecution agency which
conducts prosecutions in Wales and England. The organization carries out criminal cases
which have been investigated by police and other investigation organizations but still
justice has not obtained. They focus on finding out the culprit and punish them for
offense which they have conducted.
Private Organisations: These are owned, managed and executed either by individual, firm,
financial institutes or group of individuals. They are normally incorporated for gaining profit
within market (Hacioglu, Dincer and Celik, 2012) . Consider General Motors, it a multinational
organization which is headquartered in Michigan, America. This company is responsible for
designing vehicles and supplying their spare parts as well as financial service. They emphasize
on profit making.
 Legal Structure: It is provided below: