Relationship between Different Organisational Functions and Their Linkage to Organisational Objectives and Structure

This report explains the relationship between different organisational functions and how they link to organisational objectives and structure. It covers the impacts of macro environment on Admiral, a leading sports management company, and explains different types and purposes of organisations. It also covers the interrelation of strengths and weaknesses with external macro factors.

Business and Business
Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Covered in factsheet...............................................................................................................3
P4. Impacts of macro en.vironment........................................................................................3
P5.Internal and external analysis............................................................................................6
P6. Interrelation of strengths and weaknesses with external macro factors...........................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Business environment involves of the person management to other forces that are governable or unmanageable by business
project. All such involves the opportunities involving the threats for the management. The management consider in this report it is
Admiral. The report further discusses about diverse managerial types as with structure, size, scope addition to stakeholders (Gaganis,
Pasiouras, and Voulgari, 2019). It also follows about relationship between organisational functions as with their connection to
structure and aim of the business.
TASK

Covered in factsheet
BUSINESS AND BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Partnership- The private organisation which own and control by two partners or more then the
two members, is consider as the private partnership business organisation. In this type of the
organisation partners are equally liable to their profit and loss. Admiral is the private limited
company comes under this type of organisation.
Corporations- This is the type of organisation which declares as the separate legal entity directed
or guide by the officers, such as by the board of directors. This is the type of most advantageous
way to start the business. Such as the Admiral is one of the leading corporation in the world.
Voluntary organisation- This is the type of organisation which is run by the groups of voluntary
individuals is Sports England (Moktadir and et. al., 2020). This type of organisation are also
consider as the non profit organisation. Under this individual enters to the agreement of unpaid
working. Examples are NGOs and Charities.
Purpose- The main goal of voluntary organisation is social welfare, focus and working
on the development of society and growth of society. It focus on creating good social impact.
Legal structure
Trust- This is the type of voluntary organisation, which not consider as the legal entity
and the funding for the organisation is can be done by trustees.
Unincorporated Association- This is the type of organisation which is made with the
legal association of two or more peoples, with the purpose of social welfare. Examples are
professional associations and environmental groups (Kozielski, 2017)
P2. Size and scope of different organisations.
In the competitive world, management operates business with the help of encouraging the
sections in respect to accomplish high terms. As there are diverse management that posses to be
different in the sizes as per to the process or arrangements to reach towards the aim. In relation to
current report, three management combined with the scope and size that are as follows -
Public organisation
Size – JD sports has recruited large workers that involves of more than 500 workers who
are performing for them to provide several facilities in maximising consumers satisfaction. They
provide facilities in terms to social care, education and varied other (Tredinnick, 2018).
Scope - Such management has scope for functions extended by adapting digitalisation
tools to offers rapid terms of facilities to individuals who are living inside or outside the national
boundaries.
Explaining different types and purposes of organisations: public, private and voluntary
sectors and legal structures
The business organisation is the type of association, which develop by the entrepreneur
in context to the earning of higher benefits and profits. Below is the explanation of some
types of the business organisation.
Public sector organisation- This is the type of business entity which is funded or run
by the government or public well-fare group, on behalf of the public (Usunier, 2018).
This type of the business organisation work for the public well fare and not make the
profit for its own benefit. Such as the JD Sports Fashion plc is the public sector
organisation working for entertainment channels and broadcasting news.
Purpose- The purpose of the public sector organisation is public service, by
utilizing the scare resources.
Legal structure
 Central- The organisation which manage the funds from income tax
is called as the central government public sector organisation
(Gebauer, Haldimann and Saul, 2017). Such as the JD sport is central
government public owned organisation.
 State- The type of entities use their power in specific area and meet
the standards of central government.
 Local- The public organisation which get funding from the council tax
is consider as the local government public organisation.
Private sector Organisation- The company which is run and owned privately
by the person or group of the persons, is consider as the private sector organisation. This
type of enterprise are the segment of national economy which owned and controlled by
the private individuals. Admiral is the private sector organisation work in the different
country to generate higher profit.
Propose- The main objectives of private sector organisation, like Admiral is
British technology company, propose is higher growth of the business to generate higher
profit by serving the customers effective household and styling products.
Legal structure
Sole proprietorship- This is the type of private organisation under which
single person possess the complete liability of organisation and responsible to manage
all losses and profit (Eling and Schaper, 2017). Such as the freelancers, designers,
copywriters, marketeers etc.

Objectives - The objectives of JD sports is to eliminate the issue and develop
effective dealings. The management has varied term of aims to offers directions to their
general public by developing more values by recognition of innovations.
Private organisation
Size - Admiral has size of 15 super centred fields, 10 living outlets and many
more where approx 15000 candidates who are working functional sections to offers
goods such as sports wear with facilities that are connected to financial facilities.
Scope - Management group recruit skilled and unskilled person those who have abilities
to present several action and social control of new activities by utilising advanced tools
that extent managerial scope to present actions as effectively (Schaltegger, Hörisch and
Freeman, 2019). It offers facilities that are linked with providing economical terms of
facilities.
Objectives – The fundamental objective of Admiral is to meet the consumer demands
and desires through their sportswear material. It have purpose to offers goods and
facilities in reasonable cost to influence consumers and also acquiring present one.
Voluntary organisation
Size – Sports England have established varied stores involves 500 specific outlets that
are related to the sportswear and varied other. It involves many more that has more than
5000 products that are maintained by approx 20000 volunteers as across to the world.
Scope - The management make human centred facilities in approximately 10
countries. It can extend the scope by following new facilities in their broad term of
position that can extend satisfaction of an effective consumers (Venkatesh, Mathew, and
Singhal, 2019). It offers several facilities in respect to increase the value of sports in an
effective and efficient manner.
Objectives – The objective of Sports England is to eliminate the issues and the
conflicts by supplying safeguarding of the facilities and services of globalisation.
TASK 2
Explain the relationship between different organisational functions and how they link to
organisational objectives & structure
In a business organisation, all the departments are interrelated with each other and success
depends on that only. In context with chosen company, it is a largest technological company
whose main purpose is to generate profits and maintain good coordination and communication
within the business firm and its related departments. In accordance with Dyson, it is being
explained below: -
Marketing and human resource department: - On the basis of chosen company, the
department of marketing is interrelated with HR sector because they are indulged with
the functioning of hiring and it is completely based on the promotional activity of
marketing because their main focus is on vacancies so that candidates could apply for
the job and hire best people as possible. It ultimately helps in achieving the business
objectives within the specific period of time (Salamon and et. al., 2017).
Purchasing and R&D department: - In accordance with this, market expansion is based on the
quantity and marketing research of specific products. In terms of expanding the market
share, Dyson emphasised on their research team.
Organisational structure: -
 Hierarchical structure: - It is defined as the type of organisational structure in which
authority could be divided in accordance with the hierarchy that moves from upward to
downward. On the basis of this, targets could be achieved efficiently because everything
is done by following a hierarchy.
 Divisional structure: - It is described as a designing of the organisation in which all
sectors are divided into small groups. In context with this, functions are organised on the
basis of geographical area, market and many more. In relation with Dyson, they could
follow divisional structure, as it would help them in efficiently understanding about all
the tasks and accomplishing the objectives.

Interrelationship of functions of Admiral with linkage to objectives addition to
structure as as mentioned:
 Marketing function with human resource function – Marketing operation
maintains the tactics and planning that advances the brand goodwill in the field
of internation market. They evaluates the market condition that are linked with
consumer demands, prevailing trends as per to the actions that will support the
human resources operations. Marketing operations of Admiral maintains the
actions that will supports the human resource operations (Héroux and Fortin,
2018). Human resources operates and gather the data that are connected with
the demands of the consumers. As there are varied activities that are relates to
the consumers demands in terms of the marketing divisions that are the
collection of the actions with the help of human resource division so to
accomplish the aim the aims in an efficient way. As per to the relation of the
marketing operation that are connected with the structure and aims of the
business in varied manner as they offers social directions to present activities.
 Operation function with marketing function – Operational functions will
deals with the warehouse sections of the business, distribution of the products,
production and manufacturing or packaging of the products. Admiral is linked
with the supervising and redesigning of the functions by which the production
actions are carried out in an effective manner with no restrictions (Figge and
Hahn, 2021). Such operations of Admiral gathers the data that are linked with
the demands or supplies of the products that are undertaking with marketing
operations. All the actions are set by measuring the strategies and the plan of
actions with the motivate to accomplish the demands in an effective and
efficient manner.
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P4. Impacts of macro environment.
Admiral is in one of the leading sports management that deals with general terms of the products with the manner to offers financial
facilities. The business environment deals with the macro and the micro term of the factors that will have an impact on the operations
and the functions of the business. Micro factors are managed by the managers and it present in the managerial boundaries. It involves
consumer standards, suppliers, competitors, new entrants and substitutes. In relation to the macro factors that are external of the
control of organisational group and it involves political, social, technological, economical, legal and environmental factors that are as
follows -
Political factors - It deals with the stability of governance, competition laws, funding the grants, government approaches and
competition of regulation (Hossain and Khan, 2021). In the relation to the United Kingdom, there is stability in political sections and
such dealing will enforces the rules that evaluates the health, security and employment sections. As such political factors will have an
impact on managerial performance in varied manner.
Positive impacts – The United Kingdom is a stable nation that involves varied approaches and policies that remains constant
by out the year that help the Admiral to manage its functional costs, sources of raw material as with enhancing of the profitability. By
functioning the management in constant period the environment will effects in positive way as the Admiral can efficiently maintain all
managerial functions by following predetermined political approaches.
Negative impacts - Admiral is well known for planning the corporate social responsibilities that sets their initiatives but by the
deficiency of transparency of such divisions by the United Kingdom government in relation to maintain an effective systematic sector,
government will might put some activities against Admiral that will have an impact on their decision making sections in an effective
and efficient manner (Ermasova, 2021).
Economic factors – Such sort of the factors will engaged the credit sections, exchange rates, inflations rate, development and
disposable income. The United Kingdom's economy is highly developed with the market orientated sections of the income. The

economical factors are strong that are termed as the Admiral managers at the time of identifying the investment values by together
with the managerial portfolio. Admiral is have an impact on the business that will affects its strategies that are not as per to the
variations in terms of the economical cycle. By this, managers are not capable to have an impact on consumers.
Positive impacts - The organisation of Admiral offers several discounts on main cost on online shopping of the sports sections
that will influence varied term of the consumers that will affect on sales and profit in an effective manner.
Negative impacts - In several locations as across to the nation, by this the variations in economical cycle, managers of the
Admiral faces several challenges in relation to the inflations in which the cost of managerial goods will arise as with the products with
higher borrowing price for the management (Wang, Sun, Jia, and Chen, 2021). It will have an impact in maximising borrowings and
investments that will decrease the profit margin and maximise the risk that are related with lending of the cost that will have an impact
on the managerial decisions.
Social factors – Such factors involves the population age profile, knowledge to work, disposable income and education sections. In
the current sections of the time period, population of the United Kingdom it will refers to the shops goods that are accessible to the
single section. The managers of the Admiral will emphasis on the components that are related with the sports section and economical
status by which the target of the potential consumers. The manufacturers goods by evaluating the trends in the field of market together
with the consumer taste.
Positive impacts - Admiral functions on several actions in the international field of the market and as per to the manufacturer
the goods as according to the diverse culture that will have an impact on the sales together with the productivity and it will have an
impact on the decision making in a positive way by satisfying the consumer demands in an effective way.
Negative impacts – Consumers are highly sensitive in the nature as they change their orientation as per to the frequent changes
and the requirement of all the goods as according to their economical status. If the Admiral offers the goods at higher cost then it will
go against to their rates that are perceived by the customer then it will have an impact on the sales and on their reputation in variations
on their decisions also.

Technological factors - Such factor will deals with the digital methods, technological growth, research that spends and techniques of
innovation (Dal Mas, and et. al., 2021). The United Kingdom is accomplishing the success due to technological factors and its
planning to create digital techniques of business. The information technology of Admiral will have an impact as per to time to time on
the up gradation of their techniques and adapt suitable latest techniques in respect to perform all functions in constant manner.
Positive impacts - By adapting new progression together with technological creation like search engine optimisation, the IT
group will supports the Admiral to deal with the information section by which the management can present effectively which will
have an impact on creating dealing and holding chances to extend the management in the competitive field of market place.
Negative impacts - Regular adaption and frequent dynamical technologies will add the manner of additional cost that will have
an impact on the margin of profit in negative way. By adaption of the new techniques like artificial intelligence that will need
immense cost and low the profit margin of Admiral together with effects on managerial functions of the business as it becomes very
tough for workers to know the techniques and accept its working.
Legal factors – It include rules and laws, safety with legislation. The United Kingdom is a constitutional nation that follows common
rules that are maintained by legislation that are passed or governed based on frequent cases (Ibnugraha, Nugroho, and Santosa, 2021).
All such laws will managed and get follows by all business. Admiral managers evaluates it and know the reasons of the execution of
primary laws and follows them to accomplish the advantageous outcomes.
Positive impacts - Admiral managers suitable follows laws that are linked with the packaging and labelling to decrease the
health issues that offers goods with suitable packaging and labelling of all sports material on the cover of the products. It will supports
in gaining authorial recognition, grants and securities that will get effected in increasing the effectiveness in management of functions
in an effective way.
Negative impacts - If the managers of Admiral breaks rules or will not follows the governed acts to secure the social
environment then they have to face issues like penalties or cancellation of licences that might maintained their sustainability and
decision making procedure in negative way.

Environmental factors - It is a collection of environmental protection rules together with eco friendly situation (Fomina,
Khodkovskaya, Fazrakhmanov and Barkova, 2021). Admiral managers will concentrates on the factors and offers sports material as
with keeping environment clean by decreasing the wastages.
Positive impacts - Admiral managers have taken various initiatives activities towards decreasing the recycling reusing its
effects in decreasing the carbon footprints as with wastage that will outcomes in positive effects to perform managerial function.
Negative impacts - Some environmental factors such as non conformation of regulation managed by legal authorities that
follows the values of cost for economical divisions of Admiral that will have an impact on additional cost and maintaining the sales
level in negative way.
P5.Internal and external analysis.
Admiral is in one of the leading British brand that deals in sports material and has various outlets as across the world. By
presenting SWOT analysis, Admiral directors will determine the section in terms of their internal strength addition to weaknesses as
with external threats in relation to their opportunities.
SWOT analysis of Admiral is as follows -
Strength Weaknesses
 Admiral has created varied gathering in
that manages and as well as distributors
will not only advertise the goods rather
that to make the investments to manage
the sales personnels that will increase
the beneficiary outcomes (Stanciu,
2021).
 Admiral limits its disbursement towards
promoting or marketing actions that
have outcome in creating it negative
goodwill.
 The marketers of Admiral have limited
the enlargement of those business in
rural area to semi urban areas that limits
consumers attractive force from those

 Selected management has created
effective brand goodwill that
distinguish Admiral from challengers.
places.
Opportunities Threats
 By adapting ascent techniques,
Admiral can function its
consumers by offering online
shopping services.
 By managing the stable free
flow of monetary funds it will
supports in creating future
investments towards adjacent
product sections.
 Control of large management
will not allow Admiral to extend
in nearby nations.
 Various players in sports
business develops high
challenges level that will have
an impact on the profitability of
Admiral.
 Important variations in political
systems as with rules is the
other threat for chosen
management.
P6. Interrelation of strengths and weaknesses with external macro factors
Interrelation between strength and weakness with external environment factors are explained below:
Interrelation Strengths Weaknesses

Political Factor Government policies and
political system of the United
Kingdom is very stable and
brawny which is strength for
the company Admiral to know
that the implementation of
every legislations and polices,
company can function more
effectively and efficiently
without any problems or
issues.
Drastic and sudden alteration
in the polices and legislations
can be sometimes very
complex for the organisation.
In context to Admiral, it can be
tough for them to adjust and
operate their work in
accordance of sudden changes
or the policies and it can also
restrict the scaling of the
organisation in different
countries.
Economic Factor In the country many people are
willing to invest a huge capital
so management of Admiral
can make those investors to
invest in the company which
can be beneficial for the image
and the success of the
company (Wang, Xu, Qin and
Skare, 2021).
As because of various
modification in the business
cycle, there are modification in
foreign exchange rates, interest
rate etc which can hinders
Admiral to accomplish their
strategic goals and big
weakness.
Social Factor In UK, consumers usually UK government has

prefer to shop from the online
portals because of the options
and variety available there.
Admiral hires well skilled
marketers who knows the
wants and needs of the
consumers and according to
that they provide their
products and services through
the online portals which is a
strength to enhance their
customer base.
implemented several norms to
operate activities online and
sudden change in consumer
preference and attitude which
can lead to the bad impact on
the products and services of
the Admiral, as their sales can
decrease along with its
efficiency and profitability.
Technological Factors By adopting Artificial
Intelligence and SEO brand
Admiral can supply various
innovative and quality
products.
Technological Advancement is
becoming mandatory which is
minimising the functional
abilities and reduce business
margin because of the high
cost that can lead to low
profits.
Legal Factor Admiral is operating by
obeying all the legal
formalities and norms which is
Brand Admiral is bound with
several governed policies
which can badly impacts on

made by the government and
executes the same in effective
way such as no use of plastic
bas etc.
the operations of the business,
Environmental Factor Management of Admiral is
working on adopting eco
friendly technology which is
beneficial for them.
Admiral's manufacturing
activities can be their
weakness in this factor.
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report it has been concluded that, business will have an impact by internal factors and as well as external
factors that are to be related with the functionality and functions in diverse way. There are diverse sort of the business like public,
private and voluntary that will have diverse aims like profit maximisation, decreasing poverty and providing several facilities to large
consumer fields.

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