Types and Purposes of Organization in Public, Private, and Voluntary Sectors

Business and Business
Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Explanation of types and purposes of organization as well as its legal structure in relevance
to public, private and voluntary sectors:......................................................................................1
P2 Explanation of different types of organization in relevance with its size and scope:.............3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P3 Explanation of relationship among organizational functions and its linkage with
organizational structure and objectives:.......................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P4 Identification of positive or negative impacts of macro environment on operations of
business:.......................................................................................................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
P5 Conducting external as well as internal analysis of enterprise with the purpose of
identifying its strength and weaknesses:......................................................................................8
P6 Interrelation of strengths and weaknesses with external macro factors:................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Business environment can be defined as sum total of external and internal forces that
impacts sustainability, performance, growth and profitability of entity. Former forces further can
be divided into two factors, that is, micro and macro environment. This environment is dynamic
and complex in nature, hence contains uncertainty and has multi-faceted influences. Analysis of
business environment enables firm tapping available and useful resources and warning signals
(Ali and Miah, 2018). This report is based on business environment analysis of General Motors.
It was founded in 1908 by William C. Durant and Charles Stewart Mott. Entity is headquartered
in United States and serves in automotive industry.
This report consists explanation of different types, scope and size of enterprises. Further,
interrelationship among various functions of organization is demonstrated in relation to its
structure and objectives. Macro environment of business is analysed along with its positive and
negative impact on operations of firm. In addition to it, strengths and weakness of entity is
identified along with its relation with macro environmental factors.
TASK 1
P1 Explanation of types and purposes of organization as well as its legal structure in relevance to
public, private and voluntary sectors:
Purpose of business indicates its mission or objectives that firm desires to achieve. It sets
direction for working of staff members and strategy formulation of management. Legal structure
of business refers to ownership structure of entity or form of business (Bellucci, Bini and Giunta,
2020). Organizations are of different types that have different purpose and legal structures which
are further explained below:
Public Sector: It refers to entities which are owned as well as controlled by government.
Importance of such organization is providing good services to public, employment, regional
development, and economic development. Such enterprise is large in operations hence enjoys
economies of scale (Boone, Kurtz and Berston, 2019).
Legal structure: Legal structure of public sector organization is described below:
 Local government: It refers to public administration whose authorities is restricted to
local areas. It involves school districts, municipalities, counties as well as special
districts.
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