Business and the Business Environment - Types, Legal Structures, Size and Scope

This article discusses the different types of organizations in the business environment, their legal structures, size and scope. It also explains the relationship between organizational functions and objectives. The article focuses on private, public, and voluntary organizations, with examples such as BMI Healthcare and Action Medical Research. The article also covers the functions of finance, human resources, marketing, and production departments in NHS.

Business and business
Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Different types and purpose of organisation and their legal structures.......................................3
P2. Size and scope of different types of organisation.................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Business environment is that kind of environment within which various factors having
ability form creating influence upon how the company work and impact upon its working. In this
various kinds of elements like innovation level, suppliers, supply and demands, customer needs,
employees expectations, social trends, economic changes as well as political alterations has been
covered. The organization that has been taken is Action mediacal research which is an public
organization set up in United kingdom providing health care services. The report is focused upon
identifying different functions of organization along with the size, type and scope. In the end
macro environment either negative or positive will be discussed.
MAIN BODY
Different types and purpose of organisation and their legal structures.
Organisation are described where group of people are working together to accomplish
goals and objectives. Various kinds of organizations in relation to private, public and non
government has been explained as follows:
Private sector: These are those organizations that has been formed to earn profit. Private
organization focusing on increasing market share and developed strong brand image. Example of
such organization is BMI Healthcare (Haider ed., 2019).
Purpose – The of private organisation to enhance sales of products and services for
gaining more profits. This company provides high quality products in order to meet with
customer needs.
Legal Structures: is based upon corporal business structure. There are various kinds if
legal structure explained as follows: Partnership – This is based upon formal arrangement between two or more people
working for achieving common objective. Under it all partners are liable for making
common goals achieved. Sole proprietorship – This is consider as the simplest form of business structures as this
type of organisation is run and managed by single person only. In this owner have to take
all decision relational to business for its growth and development.

 Corporation – It has been described as organization that has been performing business
activities at different parts of world. Corporation company includes large number of
people performing business global market.
Public sector – This includes all those organisation that is run and manage by
government. Public sector company example is Action mediacal research(Grant, 2017).
Purpose – The main purpose of public sector organisation is to provide different products
and services. Action mediacal research company purpose is to provide appropriate news and
information to customers.
Legal Structures: This is a systematic procedure that will help in smooth function of business
activities. Action mediacal research company is based on central government legal structures. Local government: In this most of the business decision are taken by local government
body. Central government: This organisation is providing services to whole nation. State government: This organisation offering its products to citizens of particular state.
Voluntary Organisation sector: This sector includes all those companies that is performing
business activities for providing benefits to citizen of society. Action mediacal research is an
example of voluntary organization(Rosenbach, 2018).
Purpose – Voluntary business does not aim at earning profits and revenues. This type of
organisation is also known as non profit organisation.
Legal Structures: Voluntary company legal structures is classified into charity and trust
association. Charity – In this individual are contributing funds from their own will in order to solve
issues of society. Trust – Trustee refers to a person that is providing fund of company so that company can
conduct task and activities in better manner.
Basis BMI Healthcare Action mediacal
research
Action Medical
Research
Vision BMI Healthcare vision
is based upon
enhancing brand
image in order to
Vision of Action
mediacal research is to
provide health services
all over UK making
Vision of this
organization is to
provide information
regarding new diseases

provide high quality
work.
health pracrtices
improved.
and their variants
Mission Mission of company is
to develop strong
relationship with
customers and increase
loyalty of customers.
Action mediacal
research requires to
make individual
healthy and make sure
proper health practices
are followed.
Action Medical
research holds
responsibility to
develop strong
research upon diseases.
Products and Services The main services
provided by the
organization is related
to health like
medicine, injection
and other facilities.
The main service
provided by Action
mediacal research is
related to healthcare
practitioners and
health care services
Its main services is to
get voluntary help of
person.
Goals and Objectives The aim goals of this
company is to enhance
healthcare practices in
private sector(Raziq
and Maulabakhsh,
2016).
The goal of Action
mediacal research is to
seek that all kinds of
helath facilities are
provided to patients
admitted within
hospital of United
Kingdom.
To resolve issues of
society and provide
better services.
Stakeholders Key stakeholders of
company is
practitioners.
Key stakeholders are
staff members,
practitioners and ward
boys.
Government, trustees,
voluntaries and so on.
Legal structures Legal structures of
company is Corporate.
Legal structure of the
organization is public
Legal structure is

organization. Trustee based.
P2. Size and scope of different types of organisation.
National healthcare services :
 Background: NHS research is a public owned company which is incorporated in 1922
which gets the funds by UK households and businesses who have televisions. It provides
services related to healthcare practitioners.
 Size:The number of employees in British Broadcasting Corporation is more than 20,000
(The Action mediacal research - Statistics & Facts. 2017).
BMI Healthcare:
 Background: BMI Healthcare is a type of private limited company which is a part of
private sector organizations. This is one of the most popular organization within private
health care sector and has all kinds of services related to private organization
 Size: BMI Healthcare BMI healthcare provide patients with a comprehensive list of
treatments. They boast of 54 hospitals across the country with high-level facilities geared
towards patient comfort (Tesco posts highest growth in seven years. 2019).
Action mediacal research:
 Background: Action mediacal research is a type of voluntary organisation structure
which is global organisation who works to end the injustice to the poverty. It is an non
profit group which perform various operations like poverty alleviation, disaster reliefs
etc.
 Product or Services offered : Action medical research works for fair health care
practices to be encourages within society.
 Size: Action medical research works in 94 countries across the world, with almost
thousands of local partner organization. They works towards social welfare with more
than 50,000 volunteers worldwide (About Action mediacal research. 2019).

Explain the relationship between different organisational functions and how they link to
organisational objectives and structure.
This is one of the most important aspect for an organization like NHS and is related to its
functions which helps I setting goals and objectives. There are various functions and department
of NHS which makes there performance better and has been explained as follows:
Finance and human resource
Finance department of NHS is very important part used for setting objectives as they
provide funds to perform task in effective manner. Human resource team helps in training
employees with increases efficiency within the activities of NHS.
Marketing and production department
It is crucial for NHS to develop proper structure for marketing which helps in making its
services and programs reach to people living within United Kingdom.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it can be marked out that business environment means those
aspects which help in making business functioning done with proper discipline and order. In this
file things covered is based upon various kinds of business organization there different motives
and aims has been covered. In the end size and scope has also been covered within it. In the end
organizational function in relation to organizational objectives is explained.

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