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P1 Explain Different Types And Purposes Of Organization

   

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Business and Business Environment

INTRODUCTIONBusiness is the organised effort of enterprise to supply goods and services to consumers.It varies in sizes, types and structure, but all businesses have common purpose i.e. to earn profit.Business Environment consists of all external and internal factors that affect a business and someexternal factors are such that they can't be controlled (Aishah Kamarazaly and Phipps, 2013).These factors are often called external constraints. Business environment includes both threatsand opportunities for businesses. It is the responsibility of an organisation to identity andevaluate the environmental factors. This overall report on business and its environment, will cover different types of public,private and voluntary sectors and its purposes. Sizes and scope of range of organisation andrelationship between different organisational functions. Apart from it, this report will analyse theimpact of micro environment over business operations both positively and negatively,interrelation of strengths and weaknesses with external macro environment. Further, it will coverevaluation of types of organisational structures, its complexities and how micro and macro affectbusiness decision making.P 1 explain different types and purposes of organisations; public, private and voluntary sectorsand legal structures. Cancer Research, is a cancer research and awareness charity in the UK with 40,000volunteers. The company was established on 4 February 2002 by Isle of Man, by the fusion ofThe Cancer Research Campaign and Imperial Cancer Research Fund. The main aim of theorganisation is to reduce the amount of deaths which occur due to cancer and it also raises fundsfor the organisation. This charity chain sells second hand goods such as; books, records to raisemoney and clothing. It also provides various information about cancer and run campaigns. Theyaim to raise diseases awareness and its cause to public policy. The public provides complete fundto this organisation. It raises funds through; legacies, donations, corporate partnership, eventsand community fundraising (Aterido, Hallward-Driemeier and Pagés, 2011). The main purposeof the Cancer Research is to reduce cancer deaths, conduct research into the preventions,diagnosis and treatment of diseases. ASDA stores Limited company, in West Yorkshire is supermarket retailer, and wasfounded in 1965. Asda became the American retail giant subsidiary, i.e. Walmart in 1999 and1

ASDA was one of the 2nd largest supermarket chain between 2003 and 2014 and it is currently 3rdbehind TESCO and Sainsbury's. Apart from this, the organisation also deals in other services likefinance and provides mobile phones which make use of existing EE network. Marketingpromotions of the company are based on price and since 2015, it has encouraged itself under theslogan “Save Money, Live Better”. The company offers frozen foods, health and beautyproducts, groceries, home and clothing, kids products etc. ASDA's main purpose is 'To makeaffordable its products and services for everyone', it's values are to give respect to individuals,service to their customers and seek for excellence. Private limited company i.e. ASDA storeliabilty is limited by shares. Furthermore, their share cannot be traded publicly which determinesthat they cannot list their shares on the stock exchange. Marks & Spencer, is a multinational retailer company in London. The company sellsclothes, home ware, and luxury food products. The organisation was established in 1884 and wasfounded by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer. The company also sells corn flakes which itstarted in 2008. The company also had 47 stores across Canada and it has 980 stores across theUK. It also values customer's loyalty and confidence (Bryman and Bell, 2015). The purpose ofMarks & Spencer is to cuts its technology bill by supplier's reduction and focusing its ITbusiness on Tata Consultancy services as partner of principal technology. It also aims at servingas a general store that caters for the middle to lower-upper class. Public limited company likeMarks & Spencer is a limited liability company and they sell their share freely on the stockexchange. Public limited company cannot trade its shares without obtaining a trading certificatefrom Companies House in the UK and must include public limited in their name. P 2 explain the size and scope of a range of different types of organisationsVoluntary sectorSize of cancer research :- cancer research prevents, diagnose and treat the cancerpatients, this has helped to save millions of lives. It has been seen that over the past 40 years thecompany has doubled survivals, research has made great progress. Its long term investment in artfacilities has helped to make a successful network of research at 95 institutions and more than 42towns and cities across the UK. Sum of 195 employees were paid salaries of 60,000 euro ormore, up from 189 in the previous year. 2

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