Impact of Business Environment on Different Types of Organizations

This PPT discusses the impact of business environment on different types of organizations such as private sector, public sector, and voluntary sector. It explores the growth of the international business environment and the vision, legal structure, and stakeholders of each type of organization. The PPT also provides examples of organizations in each sector and their products/services.

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Introduction:
In this era, business environment impacts a lot in the operation procedure. Business environment
could be defined as the total number of factors that impacts in the business procedures. Those
factors could be classified as external or internal. These factors work with each other in order to
effect the international business environment.
Different types of organization:
● Private sectors are not operated or controlled by government of a country.
● As stated by Cull et al. (2015), public sectors are in total control of a government and are
considered as nonprofit organizations.
● Voluntary sectors focus in charity and helping people.
The private sectors companies are profit making companies and are controlled by entrepreneurs,
whereas public sector companies gets fund from the government and are considered as the
nonprofit organizations. Voluntary organizations focus on charity and helping poor and needy
people. They do not aim to earn revenue and the money that they gather goes to charity.
Growth of international business environment:
● The environmental changes has affected in the growth of the business in recent years.
● Seeking of new markets to expand the business, surviving in core competencies have
impacted in the international business environment.
● Better opportunities in global market and increasing demand of the customers are the
main reasons of this growth (Kljucnikov et al. 2016).

In recent era, the international business market has grown a lot. The increasing demand of the
customers, increase in competition and decrease in barriers has impacted in this growth.
Competition is also increasing globally as new products and companies are entering the market.
Organization 1: (Private sector)
● Private sectors are operated by entrepreneur or formed due to merger. For example,
Dixon carphone is formed as a result of merger between Dixons retail company and
warehouse group of carphone.
● The main products of the company is related with electronics and services related with
telecommunications.
● The private sector company especially large organizations earns huge amount of
individual profit. For example, Dixon earns £10.60 billion approximately and total
numbers of employees are 45000 approximately.
Dixon carphone is an example of private sector firm, which has formed due to the merging of
two companies in 2014. The main products of the company is related with electronic and
services of regarding telecommunications. Other than UK, the company also operates in Ireland
and other countries of Europe. The company is increasing in size and it has near about 45000
employees at present. Net income of the country is increasing per year.
Vision of Dixon, legal structure and stakeholders:
● Vision of Dixon is to evolve as a largest service provider for the customers in UK and
international market.
● The management of the company has maintained a high standard of governance by
maintaining all the legal structures and rules.

● Customers and suppliers are the main shareholders of the company
(Dixoninfo.com,2018)
The company is focusing on to provide best service to the customers and evolve as one of the
largest service providers. In order to do so the management of the firm has complied with all the
legal rules and regulations. The customers and suppliers are the main stakeholders of the firm,
which impacts in the business of Dixon Carphone.
Organization 2: Public sector
Background:
UK government has developed public sector in order to promote culture and heritage of United
Kingdom.
● UK government has developed Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
● Public sector focuses on quality of service more than their own profit.
Product and services:
Public sectors help UK population to get best service at lower cost. Departments of UK
government contribute to country’s economy.
● As opined by Roth (2016), Government of Uk has selected common public services at
lower cost in order to protect their culture.
● For example, DCMS contributes to different public sectors like art market, design,
fashion, film and so on.
Size and scope:
Purchasing products and service from government will be beneficial for public. Hence, this
sector has remarkable scope in future.

● UK government has allocated budget for near about 50000 public sector in UK (Burnard,
Bhamra & Tsinopoulos, 2018).
● UK public sector is large and near about ¼ working population works at public sectors.
Vision, mission and objectives:
Public sector of UK has aimed to serve better to people at lower price as they want to promote
and protect their culture as well as heritage.
● For example, department of digital culture, media and sport has focused on sports and
media of England.
● UK government has focused on public sectors in order to promote digital economy.
Organizational and legal structure:
Public sectors consider legislations of UK government in development of their organizational
structure in order to protect their business.
● Government sector DCMS has developed near about 23 organizational policies in order
to serve better to their customers (Gov.uk,2018).
● Basic requirements of UK population like cyber security, data protection and other
security aspects are maintained by public sectors.
Stakeholder:
Government officers, employees, customers and suppliers are important stakeholders of public
sectors.
● Suppliers can get benefited by selling products directly to government.
● People can observe transparency in price and can buy products at affordable rate.
Organization 3: voluntary sector

● The companies of the voluntary sectors are nonprofit organizations that use their income
to help the needy. For example, Oxfam is an organization that was formed in 1942.
● Voluntary organizations like Oxfam helps the needy people during a disaster, it also
works in many developmental projects and organize various campaigns.
● Oxfam is a big organization formed by merging 20 different independent organizations
(Oxfam.org.uk, 2018).
Nonprofit organizations like Oxfam, focuses on helping people who are suffering from any
diseases or disasters. They also raise different campaigns to aware people. Other organizations
like national trust and save the children are also related with voluntary sectors. Oxfam has
provided their support to different small countries Yemen and Bangladesh during their crisis.
Vision of voluntary organization, legal structure and stakeholders:
● The management of nonprofit organizations like Oxfam is focused to raise adequate
campaigns against eradication of poverty and help the needy people during any disaster.
● Nonprofit organizations that works globally need to follow the rules of different countries
in order to provide the services legally.
● Among the stakeholders of different voluntary organizations, the small independent
organizations and different people who contributed to fulfill the aim of the organizations
are significant. For example, 20 different independent organizations contributed in the
operations of Oxfam (Oxfam.org.uk, 2018).
The nonprofit organizations have different aims and missions, which includes raising fund for
betterment of people or arranging a campaign to generate awareness among people. In order
raise the fund different stakeholders like independent organizations and different businessman

plays a main role. The organizations operate in different countries and they need to follow legal
guidelines in order to provide help.
Conclusion:
Different kinds of organizations have different size, shape and scope in business. It can be
concluded that, public sectors focus on quality of service. On the other hand, private sectors
focus on their own financial profit. However, voluntary stores focus on social services and they
focus on quality of their product and services. Private sectors need to improve quality of their
product and service in order to maintain customer satisfaction.

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