Analysis of Vodafone Company's Business Environment

Business and business
environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Purpose of various kinds of organisation....................................................................................1
Explanation of each organisation................................................................................................2
Organisational objective and structure of Vodafone company with their interrelation..............5
Environmental factors that impact on business operations.........................................................6
Porter's five forces analysis of Vodafone company....................................................................8
Relationship between strength, weakness and macro factors.....................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Business environment means all the internal and external factors including employee,
customer, supply, management, supply, demand and other regulations which affect overall
performance of business. In present report business McDonald organisation is chosen to view
business environment. This present report will cover purpose of various kinds of organisations
and explanation of each organisation (public, private and voluntary organisations). After that it is
going to be discussed that what are business objectives and structure and environmental factors
that impact on business structure. Porter's five models and relationship between strength,
weakness and macro factors on business environment is also going to discuss in this report.
Purpose of various kinds of organisation.
Business organisations are the entities which aims is to provide goods and services by
carrying commercial needs and to meet customer satisfaction. Different forms of business
organisations are sole proprietorships, limited partnership, general partnership, and limited
liability partnership. Here we are going to discuss an overview of public company, private
company, and voluntary company.(Bryson,2018. ) Companies which is publicly traded and
traded freely on stock exchange are public companies. Companies which has objective of earning
profits and runs by individuals are private company and companies which has objective to
benefit society are known as voluntary organisation.
Public companies.
This types of company are also known as publicly held traded companies which objective
is to sale its securities with general public's. Shares of these companies are openly traded where
majority of share is in the hands of government and after that with shareholders. Currently less
than 1000 companies are listed on London stock exchange. These companies are formed
according to nation's legal structure. Oil company British petroleum is publicly held company
operating to provide oil in all areas. They do business in exploration, production, refining,
petrochemicals, and in power generation. Main aim of public sector organisation is to provide
services to satisfy customer, not generate profit.
Private companies.
This types of companies runs by two or more individuals to generate profit therefore it is
not owned by government. They contribute to increase countries economy. Public companies
shares do not trade on stock exchange but they may issue stocks which have shareholders.
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Approx 3.4 million sole proprietorships working in UK which means 60% of total. They also
contribute large employment, in UK 9,90,000 employers are working at the beginning of 2017.
And each private companies providing their role to improve business environment. Vodafone is
world's second largest telecommunication company in UK which is providing services in
telecommunication and a part of Vodafone Group.
Voluntary companies.
Individuals or foundations which runs this types of business does not have any motive to
generate profit, their main aim is to provide benefits to the society or to do charities for the sack
of society in nations.(Coppin, 2017.) Money they generate by doing voluntary business invests
back in society. In UK it is estimated that these sectors contribute £11.7 billion to gross value
added and 1,62,965 organisations are working in voluntary organisations to provide benefits to
societies. Wellcome Trust in UK was doing business in this sector to provide advice related to
medical health benefits to human as well as to animals.
Explanation of each organisation.
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