Business and Business Environment Assignment - McDonald

Business and Business
Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Types and Purpose of different business organisations.........................................................3
P2 Explain the size and scope of a range of different types of organisations chosen for
purpose........................................................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Explain the relationship between different organisational functions.....................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P4 Identify positive and negative impacts the macro environment has upon business
operations....................................................................................................................................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P5 Conduct internal and external analysis of specific organisations..........................................9
P6 Explain how strengths and weaknesses interrelate with external macro factors.................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Business environment is determines all the internal and external factors of environment
that can affect business functions and management practices (Avramenko, 2012). Elements of
environmental factors are very dynamic and ever-changing. Internal environmental factors are
controllable while as external factors are beyond the control as well as impacts directly on
business operations. This report is based on McDonald which is a large scale fast-food
organisations. The organisation was founded in the year of 1940 by Richard and Maurice
McDonald. The organisation operates their business in around 100 countries with has approx.
36,900 outlets. This report is going to cover types and purpose of different business organisations
as well as its size or scope. It also determines relationship between different organisational
functions. For the effective analysis of business environment, it includes positive and negative
implications of macro environment. At last in includes internal environmental analysis as well as
strength and weaknesses of external environmental factors that interrelated with business
functions.
TASK 1
P1 Types and Purpose of different business organisations
In a economy different type of organisation provides their contribution to attaining
desired growth easily. These organisations can be public, private and voluntary sector as well.
All these organisations having their different objectives and aim that they want to attain by
providing quality services to targeted customers. Purpose and legal structure of these
organisations are given below as -
Private organisation
This is considered as the part of national economy which provides basic goods and
services which cannot be obtained or provided by private sector (Bovee, Thill and Raina, 2012).
It includes national and local governments,their agencies and their hired bodies. It is the sector
that can be owned and operated by the government excluding private business or individual. The
main outcome of this sector is their ratio to combine high quality management for long -term
quality. Though many of them operates in rather complex industries with durable business
cycles, they are leaders in their industries and perform better for long term than their private

squint. McDonald is a private sector organisation which provide quality substances in fast food
services.
 Purpose of McDonald
◦ To raising money by producing and selling fast food products.
◦ To develop friendly environment for customers by providing satisfying services to
them.
◦ To trim down overstuffed menu for arranging exact amount of services.
 Legal structure of private organisation
◦ Partnership: It is type of business which is owned by two or more individuals with a
common aim and objectives (Cai and Yang, 2014). The individual of partnership
firm are known as partners. They are sharing equal liability, profit and loss on the
basis of their predetermined agreement.
◦ Sole proprietorship: These kind of businesses are setup by an person with the aim of
surviving in competitive market by their business strategies. The owner of these
organisations sharing single liability towards business and they get individual profit
by their earning.
Public organisation
This is a sector through which part of national economy made up of private venture. It
includes the personal sector and corporate sector and is authorised for allot most of the resources
within an economy (Chavis, Klapper and Love, 2011). This segment of the economy is under
control of the government. This type of organizations which is in the private sector are generally
free from government control or ownership, but somehow, they choose to partner with a
government body in a private partnership to jointly deliver a service project to community. NHS
is a public sector organisation which provides health care services to their users.
 Purpose of NHS
◦ To provide medical and health care facilities to everyone.
◦ To regulate specific regulations for the small and large scale health care
organisations.
◦ Monitoring health care services and policies of different organisations for the
optimum care of patients.
 Legal structure of Public company