Business and the Business Environment: Types and Purposes of Organizations, Organizational Functions, and External Factors Affecting Admiral Sports Wear

This report discusses the different types and purposes of organizations, organizational functions, and external factors affecting Admiral Sports Wear. It covers the relationship between different organizational functions and how they link to organizational objectives and structure. The report also includes a PESTEL analysis of the company and its interrelationship with the company's strengths and weaknesses.

Business and the Business
Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
PART 2............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The term business is basically a process in which sale and purchase of different types of goods and services has been done with
a objective to earn more profit while maintaining the corporate social responsibility. It is very important for the management of the
company to make a healthy working environment within the workplace. Due to this the productivity of the company as well as the
employee's has been enhanced. The following report is going to give information about the different types of organisation and their
legal structure with their nature, size , scope , mission and many more. The following report is based on Admiral Sports Wear which
was founded in 1914. This report also cover the relationship between the different types of business functions and how they link to
the organisational structure.
PART 1

For example like British Business bank.
Local government:- the municipal authorities of the state control these firm and
revenue has been generate for local community. For example Corporation for
public forecasting.
Organization in private sector:-
For the development of the economy of a country these private sector
organisation plays a very important role. These organisation are usually
controlled and managed by an individual or group of people. These types of firms
operate their business to earn more and more profit which improves their
sustainability in the market. No interference of government has been seen in the
functions of the business. Some of the example who came under this category are
Admiral sportswear, Mitre sports international Ltd ,Umbro etc.
Purpose:- the firms who fall under the private sector work with a motive to earn
maximum profit and become leader in their field.
Legal structure
Sole proprietorship:- these types firms are generally owned and managed by the
an individual. They are responsible for all the activities within the business. For
example like, IKEA.
Partnership firms:- these types of firms are generally owned and managed by
the more then two people who mutually decided to share the profit either in
deciding or equal ratio. For example like Go pro and Red Bull.
Voluntary Organisation:-
These types of organisation are form to solve the problems of the society
members or to achieve a common purpose. In these association different group of
people enter into an agreement actively and voluntary. Some of the voluntary
organisation in UK are Stock City FC, Sobell Leisure centre etc.
TASK 1
P1 Explain different types and purposes of organisations; public, private
and voluntary
sectors and legal structures.
An organisation is basically the a group of people who identify
the goals and objectives of the company and in order to achieve these
objective they performed together with utmost responsibility and
authority. The main motive of the organisation behind running their
business is to generate more profit and provide the employment
opportunities with in the economy. Organisation can grow their
business in different sector. Following are the different sector with their
legal structure has been discussed below :-
Organization in public sector:-
Organisation which operate their business for non profit
generation came under the public sector. These organisation is basically
controlled and undertake by the state government or by central
government. The main motive of these organisation is to provide
services to the people of the nation without having a motive of
generating profit. For example like England and Wales Cricket Board
and UK sports etc. are some of the sports association of UK which came
under the public sector.
Purpose:- the organisations who came under the public sector run their
business with a motive to serve the goods and services to the people of
the society in order to improve their standard of living.
State government:- the specific department of the government control
theses organisation who came under these category. A limited level of
involvement has been seen of central government.

Purpose:- these types of organisation work with a motive to generate
various opportunities for people of nation and focus on social
development.
Legal Structure:
Unincorporated Associations:- in these types of associations peoples
bound themselves to achieve a common objective and each person is
responsible for their actions. For example like Glaxo Smith Kline plc.
Trust:- these types of entity is not bing by the law and all the members
of the trust are responsible for each other actions. For example Barts
Health NHS Trust.
P2 Explain the size and scope of a range of different types of
organisations.
Voluntary organisation
Sobell Leisure centre:-
Background:- the Sobell Leisure centre was established by the late sir
Michael Sobell in UK. Different types of services has been provided by
them to people of the society.
Product and services offered:- different types of services like
trampoline park, outdoor and indoor pitches, gym, squash courts,
studios, swing pool and many more has been provided by them.
Size:- they offer around 258 excellent facilities to their customer in more
then 60 hubs in respect to their fitness class.
Scope:- the organisation is decided to introduce more facilities in their
operations centre.
Vision: the vision of the foundation is to serve good and excellent
quality of services to their customer.
Mission: the mission of the company is to spread the legacy of the sports which
increases the number of participates in physical activities.
Business Objectives: the objective of the foundation is to development more
employment opportunities for the people of nation.
Stakeholders: trustee, staff members etc. are some of the stakeholder of this
foundation.
Private firm
Admiral Sportswear:
Background:- the Admiral Sports wear was founded in 1914 and the
headquarters of the company is located in Leicester, UK.
Product and services offered:-sports accessories, sportswear apparels, sports
equipment, shoes, services related to sports and many more are some of the
product in which company deals.
Size: the workforce range of the company is around 75000 people and the annual
turnover of the firm is around $ 32 billion.
Scope: the company have a scope to produce those quality of goods and sports
equipment which are used in the national and international level tournaments.
Vision: to become a leading brand of manufacturing sports equipments all across
the globe.
Mission: to develop best quality of goods for the user so that no serious injury
has been done to them.
Business Objectives: the first and fore most objective of the company is to
generate more and more profit and target more market to increase their presence.
Stakeholders: board of member, sportsperson, employees and many more are
the stakeholders of the company.
Public firm
UK sports ( UKSP):-

They developed effective training programme for them so that skills of
the employees have been enhanced and they can work with utmost
productivity. They recruit the employees for all the department of the
company according to their need and along with this they get fund from
the finance department for the development of the training programme.
 Sales Department: - this function is being considered as the most
important function of the business. The profit and stability of the firm is
depend on this department. The sales department of the firm totally
relates with the HR and production area of the company. Effective
salesman has been provided by the HR department and along with this
goods has been provided by the operational department .
Organisational Structure:
The organisational structure is basically a frame work which help in
defining the different activities of the business like task allocation, coordination
and many more towards the achievement of the organisational goals. Different
types of organisational structure has been discussed below:-
Divisional Structure:- this type of structure is generally used by the large
organisation in which the functions of the company has been separated on the
basis of services or geographies, product. In this structure each division work
independently and has it's own roles, responsibilities and resources.
Hierarchical Structure: this functions is almost follow by all the organisation.
In this structure functions has been divided into different levels from top to
bottom like a Pyramid. Each employee is accountable to their manager only. The
CEO of the company is place on the highest level post and then followed by
board members. The Admiral Sports wear followed the Hierarchical
organisational structure in which each employee is accountable to their manager.
With the help of this structure the role and responsibilities has been effectively
defined and conflicts among the employees has been reduces.
Background: the respective company was founded in 1997 and the
headquarters of the company is situated in UK. This company was
founded by national lottery and government treasury.
Product and services offered: - they deals in developing world class
sports programme at national and international level.
Size: the company has invested in athletics and around 120 Paralympic
medal in 2012 London Olympics.
Scope:the organisation has a scope in bidding various sports events and
along with this they can provide assistance to their athletes.
Vision: the vision of the company is to develop good and healthy
relationship different types of sports body and global level federations.
Mission:the mission of the company is to conduct national and
international level game with in the nation.
Business Objectives: the objective of the business is to invest in the
sports programme and provide effective coaching to the national level
athletics.
Stakeholders: sponsors, board members, partners , national level
players, Trainers and many more are the stake holder of the company.
TASK 2
P3 Explain the relationship between different organisational functions
and how they link to organisational objectives and structure.
Functions of organisation:-
Organisational functions may be defined as the different set of activities
which are carried out by the employees of the company in order to
achieve all the set objectives of the company. The different functions of
an organisation with their relations has been discussed below: -
 Human Resource function: - the main function of this
department is to fulfil the requirement of the talented worker
within the company.

CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that there are
different types of sector like public, private and voluntaries which have
their own purpose and legal structure. The organisation fall under the
different category have different size, scope, business objective, mission
and many more. This report concluded that there are different
department within the company and all these department are interrelated
with each other. The Hierarchical organisational structure has been
followed by the Admiral Sports Wear also been concluded in this report.
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PART 2
Notes- The following report is going to cover the different micro and macro factor which affect the working of the Admiral Sports
Wear with the help of PESTEL and SWOT analysis. This report also cover the interrelationship between the strength and weakness of
the company with the different macro factor.

Notes-
In order to identify the impact of the external factor on the working of the company the most appropriate method which are used by
the organisation is PESTEL analysis. With the help of this framework strategies have been made to overcome form the impact of the
external factor. The PESTEL analysis of the Admiral Sports Wear has been explained below:-
Political Factor:- in this factor stability of the government, tax rate, rules and regulations of the government has been included
(Mishra and et. al., 2019). It is very important for the Admiral Sports Wear to follow all the rules and regulations which are made by
the government of the different nation.
Positive impact:- the policies which are made by the government of the UK is not usually change by them on regular basis because of
the high stability. So the respective company don't have to make regular changes in their policies and enjoy the smooth working.

Negative impact:- as respective company operates their business in the global market. Due to the change in import duty of different
countries on regular basis operations of the company has been affected.
Economical factor:- in this element GDP, per capital income, employment and unemployment rate and many more has been
comprises. It is very important for the Admiral sports wear to paid focus on the different wage rate and interest rate of the different
countries all over the globe.
Positive impact:- if the different resources like labour, fund and many more are easily available in front of the Admiral Sports Wear
then they can operate their business function in a very smooth manner.
Negative impact:- if the funds and the skilled employees are available at the higher rate then it's become difficult for the respective
company to perform their functions in effective manner.
Social factor:- in this factor change in the culture, trends, preferences, behaviour and other social issues has been comprises (Mishra
and et. al., 2019). It is very important for the management of the Admiral Sports Wear company to work according to the market
trends to improve their stability in the competitive market.
Positive impact:- if the respective organisation focus on producing excellent quality of goods and offer good quality of services to
their customer then they can effectively run their business.
Negative Impact:- if the necessary changes has not been made by the company in their products and services according to the need and
preferences of the consumer then difficulty has been face by them in relation to the stability.
Technological factor:-this factor brings lots of opportunities for the company if innovation has been adopted by them. This factor
help the organisation in making changes in their product. It is very important for the management of the Admiral Sports Wear to
adopt the new machinery and technology within the company in order to produce best quality of goods for their customer.
Positive impact:- with the help of adopting new technology by the company in their management then, they can effectively
communicate with their customer and fulfil the demand of the market.

Negative Impact:- the losing of trust and also the market share of the company has been seen, if the outdated technology has been used
by the Admiral Sports Wear in their production line.
Environmental factor:- in this element the laws which are made by the government of the country in order to protect the
environment are comprises in this. It is very important for the management of the respective company to manufacture the goods by
following all the environmental laws.
Positive impact:- if the proper emission and combustion laws has been followed by the company then they can operate their business
functions in a very smooth manner.
Negative Impact:- the loss of goodwill and brand image of the company has been faced by them if the respective company don't
follow the environmental protection law properly.
Legal factor:- in this factor changes in laws related to the welfare of the society and the employees has been comprises(Shamout and
Elayan, 2020). To make changes in these laws are in the hands of the council of the nation. It is very important for the management of
the respective organisation to focus on the changes made by the council.
Positive Impact:- if all the rules has been properly follow by the Admiral Sports wear in a very effective manner then they don't get
disturb by the council of the nation.
Negative impact:- if any action which have been taken by the company are not right in the eyes of laws then consequences in relation
to the penalty has to be bear by them.

Notes- In order to identify the internal factor which affect the functioning of the company SWOT analysis has been used by the
organisations. In context to the Admiral Sports Wear, this analysis has been discussed below:-
Strengths
The goodwill and the marketing strategies which are used by the Admiral sports wear act as a strength for them(Chao and et. al.,
2020) .
Good market share has been captured by the respective company and along with this many sports events has been hosted by them
which help them in acquiring more customer base.
Weaknesses

High competition has been seen in this industry due to which customers have many options in front of them to chose, which result in
lose of customer.
The use of innovative technology with in their business increases the price of the product which are not generally accepted by the
consumer.
Opportunities
In order to increase the market base the management of the Admiral sports wear can endorse their product form the famous film start
and sports persons.
In order to capture the more market area they have the opportunity to tie up with the sports club
Threats
Continences increase in the tax rates and changes in the policies by the government, the sale of the company has been affected in a
very immense manner(Wang and Wang, 2020).
The well developed and settled image of their rivals like Nike, Adidas and many other also being considered as the biggest threat for
the company.

Notes- Political:- with the help of high political stability within the UK, company can make their policies for long term due to which
smooth running can be enjoy by them.
Economic:- the Admiral Sports Wear have good opportunity in front of them. As the UK is a well developed nation so there is high
chance for the company to grow their workforce because of the easy availability of the skilled labour and many other resources.
Social:- operating their functions in the different countries help the Admiral Sport wear in increasing their customer as well as the
brand image. This act as a biggest strength for the company(Reißmann, Thrän and Bezama, 2018).
Technological:- technology factor sometimes act as a weakness for the company. Increase in the cost of goods been face by the
respective organisation because of the adoption and rapid changes in the technology.