Business and the Business Environment

1.8 Assignment brief Unit 1 Business and the Business Environment Unit code L/508/0485 Unit type Core Term Start date 12/09/2016 Assignment/hand-out date 26/09/2016 Deadline/hand-in date 20/11/2016 Assignment title Word count The suggested word count for this assignment is 5000 words and no learner will be penalised for producing work outside this limit but should ensure their word count allows them to meet the assessment objectives Purpose of this assignment Students will examined on the different types of organisations (including for profit and not for profit), their size and scope (for instance, micro, SME, transnational and global) and how they operate. Students will be expected to explore the relationships that organisations have with their various stakeholders and how the wider external environments influence and shape business decision-making. PLEASE NOTE: THIS ASSIGNMENT WILL HAVE 2 PARTS TO COVER ALL THE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR MERIT AND DISCTICTION AS

Business and business environment

PURPOSE OF DIFFERENT BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION
Public organization
Any organization that is defined as being part of
the public sector by a legal framework at any
level. Marks &Spencer Plc is a major British
multinational retailer headquartered in the City
of Westminster London. It is dealing with
retailing of clothing, home products and luxury
food products.

CONTI…
 Private organization
Iceland Food Ltd is a British supermarket chain,
with emphasis on the sale of frozen foods,
including prepared meals and vegetables. It sell
non frozen grocery items such as produce,
meat, dairy and dry foods. The company has an
approximate 1.8% share of the UK food
market. It is private business organization
which is a famous retail outlet in the UK
market.

CONTI…
 Voluntary organization
Alliance for Bright Citizens is a non-profit NGO
works voluntarily for the nourishment of
education in the society especially among
youths so as to eliminate social problems such
as drug abuse, HIV/Aids and its related
problems. It incites the parents to care for their
children in order to make their personalities
well and sound.

SIZE, SCOPE AND STRUCTURE OF
ORGANIZATION
 As per the above discussion it has been
ascertained that Marks &Spencer Plc is a major
British multinational retailer headquartered in
the City of Westminster London. It is dealing
with retailing of clothing, home products and
luxury food products. As per the size point of
view of this venture It is a famous retail outlet
in the UK which have 83069 numbers of
employees and have 852 stores throughout the
UK, as well as many international stores; 52
stores in India, 48 stores in Turkey 37 in
Russia, 27 in Greece, 17 in Ireland, 14

INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SIZE , SCOPE
AND OBJECTIVE OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
As per the above discussion it has been
ascertained that there have an effective size and
scope of Mark & Spencer’s. If size of the
corporation is effective then it becomes easy to
acquire the large numbers of customers toward
organization from different countries.
Corporation structure is very essential in order
to achieve business objective because structure
defines the system of hierarchy. Under the
structure, all departments have divided
according to their roles and responsibility.

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