Business and Business Environment Assignment - John Lewis Partnership

Business and
Business
environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1: Types and Purposes of private, public and voluntary organisation......................................1
P2: Size and scope of different organisations.............................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3: Interrelation between different organisational departments and their linkage with
organisational objectives.............................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P4 Impact of Macro Environment ..............................................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P5: Internal analysis of organisation for identification of Strength and Weaknesses.................9
P6: Interrelation of macro-environmental factors with company's strength and weaknesses...10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Business environment includes internal as well as external factors which affects and
influences the sustainability and profitability of the organisations irrespective of the fact whether
operated at local or global level. Internal factors consists of employees morale, shareholders
support, managerial decisions etc. whereas external factors includes political, economical, social,
technological etc. Such influencing factors either make negative or positive impact on the overall
performance of an organisation thus it is more important for management to analyse such
influencing factors more carefully through various techniques such as PESTLE, SWOT etc. The
present assignment is based on John Lewis Partnership which is located at London, UK engaging
in providing multiple number of products such as clothing, watches & Jewellery, furniture,
financial services and many more. The project report describes the types of organisations in
addition with their scope, size, mission, vision, legal structure, SWOT and PESTLE analysis
along with their positive and negative impact, interrelation between various departments and
their role in achieving organisational goals.
TASK 1
P1: Types and Purposes of private, public and voluntary organisation
The organisations irrespective of the fact whether operated at local or national level get
much influenced by business environment which are complex and contingent in nature. There are
different types of organisations such as private, public and voluntary which are exist into market
to contribute more in the growth of GDP in terms of paying huge taxes as well as enhancing
standard of living of people through creating them lots of employment opportunities (Aithal,
2016). They are followed different legal structures due to having distinct nature. The brief
explanation of such types of organisations are given as under:
Private company:
It is a company which is owned and controlled by private individuals with a clear
objective of generating profits. It mainly focuses on offering quality instead of lowering prices so
that their products and services maximises their standard of living. Apart from this, the company
has facing some restrictions from the government such as they are prohibited to allot shares
directly to the public.
John Lewis Partnership is privately owned company operated by John Lewis and Partners
at London, UK. It is engaged in offering wide range of products such as furniture, clothing,
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financial services and many more due to which it has attained third largest private company by
sales in the year 2016 according to the Sunday Times.
Purposes of John Lewis Partnership:
 Maximising the satisfaction level of their employees as it is owned in trust for its
members.
 Maximum return to the partners on their investment.
 Achieving huge customer base across worldwide.
Public sector organisation:
It is an organisation which is owned and operated by government authorities through
subscribing more than 51% of shares in company. It came into existence with a clear objective
i.e. maximising standard living of people through offering healthy and quality products at an
affordable prices. Therefore, it is also known as Non-Profit organisation (Helms and Nixon,
2010).
NHS is a public sector organisation or NPO which exist at global market with their health
related services with an objective of serving maximum number of people who cannot afford to
get proper medical related services. It gets maximum support from government due to having
their maximum contribution towards welfare of society.
Purpose of NHS:
 Serving people with dignity and respect.
 Visiting at multiple number of nations to serve maximum number of needy people.
 Promote health fitness programs to prevent any diseases.
Voluntary organisation or NGO:
It is an organisation which is owned and controlled all business activities by number of
volunteers. It includes big businessmen, trustees, celebrities etc. They are grouped with an
objective of enhancing the livelihood of people through rending them welfare services at free of
cost.
Oxfam is an example of voluntary organisation whose main aim is eliminate poverty
through offering needy and poor people the basic necessities of life at free of cost. Thus, it act as
a charitable trust who conduct various functions such as disaster relief, advocacy, policy
research, pro-migration (Karagiorgos, Drogalas and Giovanis, 2011).
Purpose of Oxfam:
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