Business & the Business Environment Assignment - Sainsbury
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Business And The Business Environment
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3P1: Types and purposes of organisations...............................................................................3P2 Size and scope of different kinds of organisations............................................................6TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8P3: Interrelation between organisational function and organisational objectives..................8TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10P4 Positive and negative impacts of the macro environment on business operations..........10TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12P5 SWOT analysis for determining the strengths and weaknesses.....................................12P6: Interrelation of weakness and strengths with macro environmental factors..................14CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
INTRODUCTIONBusiness is defined as the companies which are created or formed for earning profits ormoney through utilising their different resources such as employees or departments. Theseemployees and departments also provide their maximum contributions for achievement of presetgoals or objectives of the organisation. The chosen firm for this assignment is Sainsbury's whichis the second largest chain of supermarket along with based in UK. The organisation wasfounded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury. Company have more than 1,80,000 employees whoare providing their services in 1415 outlets across the UK. This assignment will discuss about thesize, scope, vision, mission or different organisations along with their legal structures. It will alsoincludes interrelations between different departments of a company. In addition to this, PESTLEanalysis and its positive or negative impact on the firm will also discussed in this report. Thelater part of report will discuss about SWOT analysis and interrelation of strength and weaknesswith external factors.TASK 1P1: Types and purposes of organisationsMain aim of the organisations is to enhance the profitability of business operations so thatcompetitive advantage can be gained by them. For achieving this, structure and kinds oforganisation also plays an essential roles which are briefly explained as under with the exampleof Sainsbury's Public organisationPublic organisations are the one whose share of more than 50% are owned by local orcentral government. Main objective of these firms is to provide services to the citizens of nationsinstead of making profitability. Apart from that, all losses or debts of these firms are bear bygovernment. The funds of these organisation are collected from tax duties from the citizens,duties and taxes etc. NHS is the most appropriate example of public organisation in UK which isowned by the central governmental authorities. NHS is divided into three parts such as primary,secondary or tertiary (Schlesinger, 2016). Main purpose of these firms are given as under:To provide better quality in health care services to the citizens of UK along with takingminimum charges.
To raise the standard of health care services in UK with an aim of providing healthservices to the needy people.Legal structureLocal government: In it, government control or monitor a small part of a nation like cityor a district.State government: State authorities have to handle and regulate the collection ofdifferent cities of a particular state.Central government: These authorities have duty to control and regulate across thenation that involves tax duties, economies, laws etc.Legal responsibilities which have to adhere by the healthcare firms – UK is thegovernment sponsored healthcare system which follows Health and Social care Act, 2012 thatincludes department of health, clinical commissioning groups and NHS England whose mainpurpose is to remove inequalities in health between the citizens of UK. For establishing orstarting a new business in Health care industry, owners have to fulfil all the requirements anddesires of the government bodies. So that, inequalities in healthcare services can be reduced andhealth and well-being of citizens will be maintained (Shenkar,2014).Private organisationThis kind of organisations are handled or regulated by a specific group of individualswith an objective of acquiring high profitability. In this, governmental authorities have noauthority to interference in their operational activities but owners of these organisations haveresponsibility to follow the legislations and policies which are formulated by them. Sainsbury's isthe taken organisation for this kind which is a private firm and engaged in territory sector and itspurposes are defined as under:To fulfil the needs and wants of customers along with providing quality products to them.To provide better quality products and services to the customers so that a good brandimage of firm will be developed in the mindset of them.Legal structurePartnership: This type of ownership is performed by two or more individuals and profitsor losses of the firm are also shared by them. Latest example of partnership in Sainsbury'sis they have made their partnership with fashion brand Oasis.
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