Business and the Business Environment

This document discusses the different types of organizations, their purposes, legal structures, and complexities. It also explores the interrelationship of organizational functions. The subject is Business and the Business Environment, and the course code is not mentioned. The document type is an assignment.

Business and the
Business environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................1
Various types, purposes and legal structure of organizations................................................1
Organizational structure, scope, size and legal structure to achieve business objectives and
play a role to formulation of product and services sold in marketplace.................................3
Complexities of several types of business structures and interrelationship of several
organizational functions.........................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Business environment refers to the different types internal and external factors which
includes clients, customers, innovative technologies, economic systems, people, employees and
so on. All that factors affects business firms in both positive and negative manner. Along with
this these factors also affects on that how an organization is working and how they are applying
business tools and strategies to achieve targeted goals. Further, assignment is based on three
types of organizations such as private (Greggs Plc), public (Crown Prosecution services) and
volunteer (Oxfam) (Boons and Lüdeke-Freund, 2013). Moreover discussion will be based on size
and scope of different organizations along with different types of theories towards these assorted
firms. At last, interrelationship with different departments and business structure of firms will get
covered.
TASK 2
Various types, purposes and legal structure of organizations.
Organisation refers to the different units of people which is mainly structured and
managed in order to meet collective goals and objectives in a perfect way. Therefore, all type of
organisations has their own structure, size, purpose and numerous activities by which they
assigned several roles and responsibilities to their employees. There are different types of
organisations which are going to be discussed below:
Private organisation:
This type of organisation mainly controlled and managed through an individual or
different firms along with do not have any kind of pressure from government. In order to better
understanding of private firms there is Greggs Plc has been taken which was founded in the year
of 1939 and it is one of the largest bakery chain within UK. It mainly specialises in savoury
goods like sandwiches, bakes and sausage rolls along with sweet items are includes vanilla slices
and doughnuts as well. It is headquartered in Longbenton, United Kingdom (Bocken and et. al.,
2013).
Purpose: The main aim of this bakery firm is to provide better and fresh food to their
customers in order to create trust towards price. Along with they have 1,850 shops worldwide by
which they serves million of customers in a week.
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Legal structure: It generally based on governance structure which is centred on a Board
of directors which is helpful for firm to make their decision better by which they can improve
culture of an organisation and able to give better services to their customers.
Stakeholders: Greggs plc mainly believes on their two types of stakeholders like
customers and staff. In order to make every customers happy they always deals with innovative
food products and services in order to satisfying their needs and wants in an appropriate manner.
Public organisation:
This type of firm is always cope up with government rules and regulations in order to
sustain for long period of time at marketplace (Belás and et. al., 2015). For better understanding
of these assorted organisation Crown Prosecutions services is there which is located in Wales
and England. It help societies and people towards protection from criminal prosecution.
Purpose: Main purpose of this firm is to reduce criminal cases from the society along
with give better advice and alternatives to police or agencies. By having this type of purpose they
can achieve its targeted goals and objectives in a perfect way.
Legal Structure: As it is government based organisation so that they are independent
and mainly have responsibilities to overcome criminal cases within UK. So the main target or
focus of this firm is family courts and police to give them accurate information effectively.
Stakeholders: It generally involves governmental employees, financial institutions and
so on through which they can make effective solutions to gain people confidence towards them.
Voluntary Organisation
These organisation based upon those employees and people who agreed on the particular
agreement along with who voluntarily participate on activities. Oxfam is one of the best example
of these sorts of firm which is considered as a 20 non independent charitable committees to
reduce poverty from the nation (Babatunde and Adebisi, 2012).
Purpose: Main aim of this firm is to offer better solutions towards poverty in order to
make every people happy. Therefore they always want to make such solutions which will help
them to achieve targeted goals appropriately.
Legal Structure: It is based on trust and unincorporated association in which
communities shows their interest to build strong relationship with people towards achieving
goals and objectives by which they can achieved targeted goals and objectives in proper way.
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Stakeholders: People can be anything or who are able to develop effective company
through applying innovative ideas to overcome poverty which will influence all over people in a
right mode.
Organizational structure, scope, size and legal structure to achieve business objectives and play a
role to formulation of product and services sold in marketplace.
Growth is one of the main important factor between business and firms by which they
can have different types of size, scope, mission and vision in order to accomplish their objectives
in a perfect way (Babu, 2012). With the help of this they can target large number of customers
and able to grab marketing opportunities, there is brief concepts of several organisation, those are
elaborated below:
Private Organization (Greggs Plc):
Background: Greggs plc was established through John Gregg as bakery in the year of
1939. it is one of the largest chain of bakeries within UK and deals with different types of
sausage rolls and sandwiches etc. along with it is able to provide unique services to their
customers by having unique quality of food items.
Mission: To offer unique tasting food, for bringing the joy of eating to everyone in a
perfect mode. Along with to make fresh bakery products by focusing on quality and sales them at
affordable price at marketplace.
Vision: Main vision of this plc is to become customer's favourite for overall items of
food. With the help of this, they can easily understand consumer's needs and wants and treat
them in a perfect manner.
Business Objectives: Greggs plc always stands for fresh, tasting prepared food which is
purchase by the customer's at affordable price. For more betterment they want to become
favourite for all the customers (Avramenko, 2012).
Products: It includes doughnuts, sandwiches, vanilla slices and so on. By having this
type of bakery products they always concentrates on their packaging and delivering systems.
Size: As it was the largest chain of bakery products so that now they are operating 143
franchised outlets therefore, size is broad of this firm.
Scope: As they applied transactional and relational marketing strategy so that they can
easily focus on customer's value and their satisfaction which will support them and increase their
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value and services in a perfect manner. Along with they can increase its large number of shops
through changing locations of existing shops.
Structure: They used Global Hierarchical structure in order to bring few changes within
its existing shops by which they can achieve competitive market analysis.
Public organisation (CPS):
Background: In order to provide different types of policies they are needed to focus on
criminal cases to remove criminal cases in a perfect mode. As it was found in the year of Wales
and England so that they can provide numerous services for betterment of future (Andersson,
Forsgren and Holm, 2015).
Mission: In order to offer legal advices and policies to investigative firms and police so
that they can make better decisions to conduct prosecution.
Vision: To have large number of employees to protect people within society towards
meet rational goals.
Business Objectives: The main goals or objectives of this firm is to offer unique services
to make each and every individual.
Products: Services are includes in several advices which is used by police and
investigative agencies.
Size: It work around 6,000 people as an employees to get better goals and objectives.
Scope: As it help nation to remove crimes so that there is large scope for people who
work with them.
Structure: It is based on different types of conducting prosecution services within
England and Wales as well.
Voluntary organisation (Oxfam):
Background: It is one of the organisation which is known as 20 independent charitable
trust by having aim of overcome poverty nationwide (Adeoye and Elegunde, 2012). It was
established to bring smile on every individual face.
Vision: To get over poorness from the world.
Mission: To explicate assorted sorts of plan of action and variable to reach score.
Size: By having lots of employees then they can work easily and able to satisfy people
wants.
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Objectives: Main objectives of this firm is to reduce poverty in order to improve
standard of living towards people and society.
Structure: In order to bring more innovative tools and tactics through using Hierarchical
structure in an stipulated manner (Carroll and Buchholtz, 2014).
Complexities of several types of business structures and interrelationship of several
organizational functions.
Illustration 1: Organisational structure
Source: Organisational structure, 2017
The major complexities in this type of organisational structure is that manager is responsible for
providing information to assistant manager as well as assistant decorator. Assistant manner will
be communicating information head baker, head clerk as well as head chef. Lower level of
employees will not be able to communicate with the top level of employees.
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Illustration 2: Organisational structure
Source: Organisational structure, 2018
There are various complexities in this type of business structure is that there is no direct
communication between the employees who are working at lower level as well as employees
who are at high level (Organizational structure, 2017). This will lead to increase in the confusion
as well as affect the overall performance of employees.
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Interrelation of several organisation functions
There are different organisation function which is very helpful in performing business
activities in effective manner. It is very important that each and every function as well as
department of organisation is interrelated with each other. The major functions of organisation is
human resource, finance, productions and marketing. It is essential that activities of each
function are interrelated with each other in order to achieve desired goals. Interrelation of
different organisational functions are mention below:
Human resource and marketing – Human resource department is responsible for attracting as
well as selecting employees with high skills and capabilities. Marketing function of respective
company will lead to increase in sales and profits of organisation. Human resource department of
this company needs to provide training to its employees. So that they can perform marketing
activities in effective and efficient manner (Organizational structure, 2018).
Marketing and productions – It is essential that production department of respective company
is developing product and services as per need and want of customer. Marketing department
needs to identify as well as analyse the need and demand customers. This will help in developing
product which will lead to meet with the requirements of customers.
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CONCLUSION
According to the above report it has been analysed that, business environment plays
significant roles within the organizations in order to achieve their business objectives and goals
by protecting from different factors externally and internally as well. There is different types of
organization which all have various motive to gain successful growth at marketplace. Along with
this, there are several sorts of issues and problems which is faced by firms during expanding
their business in a broader way. Therefore, PESTLE and SWOT analysis are very helpful tool
which is used by firms to gain competitive advantages in a better way.
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