Size and Scope of Different Types of Organisations

The assignment discusses the concept of size and scope in relation to organisational structure. It uses three case studies - Amazon, Primark, and Oxfam - to illustrate how these concepts apply to different types of organisations. The analysis covers aspects such as employee numbers, product lines, mission statements, vision statements, and objectives. This document is useful for students studying business and management courses.

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Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P2. Size and scope of different types of organisations................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

TASK 1
P2. Size and scope of different types of organisations.
In the competitive market, distinct organisations run the business in order to attain profits
(Appelbaum and et.al., 2017). Such organisations posses different size addition to scope on the
basis of their structure. In context to this, scope along with size of three different organisations
are as elaborated:
Private organisation
Amazon:
Size: Size of amazon is vast as it owns more than 40 subsidiaries that includes
teachstreet, Shopbop, Goodreads, Twitch, Kiva system and Audible (Amazon size. 2019). The
company has provides employment to approximate 647500 people across regions such as North
America, Asia, Europe, Oceania and South America.
Scope: The product line of Amazon consist of several media, baby products, beauty
products, groceries, kitchen items, garden items, sporting items, automotive items, musical
instruments, consumer electronics and personal care items. It delivers Amazon web services,
courier services, gaming services, consulting services together with emergence services. The
company can diverse the scope by adding new product or services in its product portfolio and
can attract numerous clients.
Mission and Vision: Amazon has vision and mission to become world's most customer
centric company together with building a place where individuals can discover anything that they
wants to buy online (Brown, 2018).
Objectives: Objective of Amazon is to satisfy existing customers along with attracting
new customers. Its another objective is to minimise costs associated with operations so to
minimize product prices.
Primark
Size: The entity has diverse size that includes 350 stores across the globe along with
70000 employees (Primark size. 2019).
Scope: The organisation delivers products related with clothing, footwear, confectionery,
accessories and beauty products. Primark can enhance its scope by delivering values to
customers together with growing shops in emerging markets.
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Mission and Vision: Mission as well as vision statement of Primark is to deliver quality
products at low prices to the customers as to stay in competition addition to promoting culture.
Objectives: Objectives of the firm is to sell quality products at reasonable prices and to
become friendly as well as helpful towards staff members and customers.
Voluntary organisation
Oxfam
Size: The size of Oxfam is large as it constitutes diverse shops that includes 650 shops
including bookshops, furniture shops, bridal wear shops and music stores across the nation that
are managed by more than 23000 volunteers.
Scope: Volunteers together with managers of Oxfam delivers humanitarian services in
more than 14 nations. The organisation has scope to expand the operations by setting new store
at new location to serve services (Spratlen, 2015).
Vision and mission: The vision and mission statement of Oxfam are to build the world
without poverty as well as to bring changes in living standards of individuals surviving in
poverty.
Objectives: The objective of Oxfam managers is to eradicate poverty together with
discrimination among rich or poor people as well as supplying safeguard services to numerous
people.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Appelbaum and et.al., 2017. Impact of business analytics and enterprise systems on managerial
accounting. International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. 25. pp.29-44.
Brown, R. A., 2018. Chinese business enterprise in Asia. Routledge.
Spratlen, T. H., 2015. Black Consumers and Black Business: Income, Spending and Sales
Stacey, R. D., 2016. The chaos frontier: creative strategic control for business. Butterworth-
Heinemann.
Vom Brocke, J., Petry, M. and Gonser, T., 2016. Business process management. In A Handbook
of Business Transformation Management Methodology (pp. 137-172). Routledge.
Online:
Amazon size. 2019. [Online]. Available through: <https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-
amazon-reach-across-markets/ >
Primark size. 2019. [Online]. Available through: <https://www.primark.com/en/aboutus >
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