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This article discusses different types of organizations, their functions, and structures. It provides an overview of Vaara, UK Sports, and Access Sports. The article also explains the impact of organizational structure on the business. It covers various factors that affect the growth of the organization, such as political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors. The article concludes with the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of Vaara.

Organisational Types,
Functions and Structures

Table of Contents
2.1 INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Background details of Vaara..................................................................................................3
2.2 Background details of UK sports ..........................................................................................4
2.3 Background details of Access Sports....................................................................................4
3.1 Different functions performed by the organisation................................................................5
3.2 Organizational chart and its inter relation..............................................................................6
3.3 Impact of organizational structure.........................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

2.1 INTRODUCTION
There are different types of organisation prevailing in the business organisation such as
private, public and voluntary organisation. A private organisation refers to a company that is
privately owned by individuals. On the other hand, a public company is that where major shares
are in the hands of government. Whereas voluntary organisation are a group of people who have
similar interest and comes into association. With the development in the business sector there has
been growth in the international business in the dynamic environment. With effect of
globalisation there are new opportunities of entry new market and targeting new audience
market. Thus, it is leading towards growth in the international business.
Task 1
Portfolio of factsheets

2.1 Background details of Vaara The products and services
Vaara is a private organisation that is involved
in the sale of sportswear. It is UK Based
organisation that is majorly known for the top
brands n the field of sportswear. Organisation
provides quality products to the customer. As
the business have wide customer base it will
motivate them to do innovation in their existing
line of the products. This innovative products
will provide brand satisfaction to their
customers.
Size and scope of the organisation
Vaara is an international private company that
has the large customer base in different
countries of the world. The scope of the
organisation is to expand the business in
various new different locations in order to
increase the growth of the business and sales in
different countries.
Vision mission and business objective
Business has vision to provide the good quality
of sports products to the customer ta help them
in the better exercise. The major objective of
Vaara is to increase the sales of the products
along with the recognisance of Brand outside
the domestic country of company. The
functional organizational structure will help the
business to achieve effectiveness in their
working. It is because the decision making will
be fast as every function of business can take
their own decision. The fast decision making

will increase sales of the company.
The organizational and legal structure
Vaara follows the functional organisational
structure that identifies the authority on the
basis of functions in the organisation. And
legal structure of the company is the private
limited.
Stakeholders
Stakeholders of the organisation include the
shareholders, customers of the company,
employees in the organisation and government

2.2 Background details of UK sports The products and services
UK sports is an association that is engaged in
the preparation of the events of various sports.
Programs are started by the UK sports to attract
the people towards sports activities. Sports
activities are organized by the company to
encourage the people in the country to
participate. The size of the business is in
national area so, it will help the company to
meet the needs of more people with the
existing product range.
Size and scope of the organisation
It the national business operated in various
location across the United Kingdom. The
scope of the association is to motivate the
people of the country towards the sports
activities and empower them to join the
activities.
Vision mission and business objective
Vision mission of the organisation is to
increase the country position in the field of
sports activities. The objective of the business
to select the person for the specific sport
activity that represent the country. It also has
objective to provide strategic, financial and
technical support so that events are delivered to
a world-leading standard. The divisional
structure establish clear pattern of work which
will help the organization to identify the
responsible person for a work. This will help
them to select the representative.

the organisational and legal structure
the structure of UK sports is divisional
as different activities are divided in department
that undertake all the necessary task related to
their specific department (UK Sport Structure,
2021). UK sports is the government
organisation that is completely operated by the
government service providers in the country.
Stakeholders
Stakeholders of UK sports include all
the people who are engaged in the field of
sports, companies that are involved in the
sports activities, government and others
partners that are supported by the UK sports.

2.3 Background details of Access Sports The products and services
It is a group of people that provides various
service in order to create positive social
impact. Services of the organisation includes
disability inclusion, social inclusion, making
track cycling inclusion. The size is limited and
scope will help to innovate their products
which will help to motivate their consumer's to
indulge into sports.
Size and scope of the organisation
It serves at the different location in the country
of United Kingdom such as London, Bristol
and Manchester. The organisational scope of
the organisation is to create the change in the
sports activities that promotes the people and
games to improve their recognition.
Vision mission and business objective
The vision of the organisation is to provide
transformational benefits to the everyone in
community sports (OUR PROGRAMS, 2021).
Access to sport, physical activity, and play for
everyone is the major objective of the
organisation. The functional structure will help
the company in fast decision-making which
will help the company to provide
transformational benefits to their customer's
and achieve the objectives.
Tshe organizational and legal structure
The organizational structure of Access Sports
is functional structure. It has major three
functional area governance, programs and

administration. Legal structure of the
organization states that access sports is the
voluntary company.
Stakeholders
the stakeholders of the organisation include the
people who are being served or supported by
the company, volunteer of the organisation,
government and the people who support
financially to the organisation.
3.1 Different functions performed by the organisation.
Depending in the size of the company and type of business there are various function that
are performed by different organisation. That is for example a sports company will performs
functions such as sales, marketing, production, research, accounting etc. With the help of these
functions it will help an organisation in running its operations smoothly and efficiently. Various
functions that are performed by Vaara are as follows:
 SALES AND MARKETING- It is a function that helps in promotion of the business in
the market that is with the help of this function it helps the brand in increasing its sales
and raising its brand awareness among the targeted audience (Jensen, 2019).
 HUMAN RESOURCE- Another function performed by the brand is the management of
human resource it is one of the most important function as human resource is considered
one of the most important and a Unique asset for the company (Bhargava, and Pradhan,
2019). Thus, it is important to manage effective human resource to meet the goals of the
organization.
 PRODUCTION- Another function is the production that is it is a function that helps in
maintaining the brand position in the market which measuring and maintaining the
quality of the products through effective production (Kohler and Grebhahn, 2021).
3.2 Organizational chart and its inter relation.
Vaara follows a functional structure that is the brand is divided on the basis of its
function that is in this structure the employees are groups on the basis of their functional skill

sets. One of the advantage of the functional structure is that it helps in collectively focusing the
energies of similar employees towards achieving the organisational goals. The organisation chart
is given below:
Thus, for a business to be successful it is important there is inter relation between the
various functions of the organisation (Bido‐Medina and et.al., 2018). that is marketing function
of the organisation must work in accordance with other business function so as ensure that the
marketing strategies formed are effectively implement by the employees recruited by the HRM.
It is beneficial as it will help the organization to grow while also a disadvantage as it might
happen the criteria of worker is different. On the other hand, finance department of Vaara needs
the support of other functional department also. So that it can ensure that there if effective budget
allocations according to the plans. The advantage is the departments will have sufficient amount
of budget but it might happen that the business is short of fund because of low sales. However,
Illustration 1: Organization chart of Vaara

the inter relation between the various department can be beneficial as well as a limitation for the
company. Thus, the inter relation of various functional departments helps the organization in
increasing its efficiency and creativity. That is with inter relation between the various functions
there is higher level of coordination and communication between the departments (Topchiy and
Tokarskiy, 2018). This helps the organisation in generation of new ideas and increases the
creativity of the organisation which in deed leads the company towards success. However on the
other hand, the inter relation between the various functions department results in slow decision
making and there are chances there may be confusion among the functioning of the department.
This is a result of interrelationship which will affect the efficiency of the employees. Thus, it
may leads the company towards losses and reducing its productivity.
3.3 Impact of organizational structure
With the inculcation of a functional structure in the organisation, it can be evaluated that
it has a positive impact on the company (Stillman and Denny, 2019). That is it helps the
business in achieving higher operational efficiency that leads the company towards growth and
success. On the other hand, functional structure combines the employees with the same skill sets
which in turn results in increasing the operational speed of the organisation. Also, there is a
higher level of clarity among the several departments and there effective allocations of tasks and
responsibilities. This helps the Vaara in eliminating duplication of activity that used to increase
its cost of operations. One of the major impact of functional structure on the organisation is that
it leads a business towards specialization. Thus, with the specialization in different functional
department its helps the company in increasing its market positioning by providing higher level
of satisfaction to its customers. Therefore, the functional structure has a very significant impact
on the Vaara company in achieving success.

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Political Factor: It refers to the impact of government of the country on the business. The
globalisation of Vaara will require the organisation to extend the international supply chain
and follow political procedures in the online selling f the organisation. The government
regulation will also have to followed by the company to sale the products in outside the
boundaries of the country.
Economical Factor: It refers to the impact of change in interest rates, employment, economy
fluctuation such as inflation and deflation. The product of the organisation are leisure items
that are not necessary to the customer. The sales of the organization is impacted by the sports
buyer trends and preferences. Manufacturers shift to accommodate economy fluctuation.
Vaara must improve in the research related to the distribution area in order to ensure
company's growth and opportunities.
Social Factor: It refers to the change in the taste and preference, trend and lifestyle that
impact the growth of the organization. Social factor is in favour of Vaara. People are more
likely to live healthy lifestyle that lead to the increase in the growth of the organisation. The
design of the product also create and impact on sale of the organisation.
Technological Factor : it refers to the impact on the organisation with the change in
technologies. People are shifting towards the use of technological tools for the shopping.

The use of digital technologies in the organisation will lead to the increase in the sale of
organisation. Use of digital technologies in the marketing will also help the organisation to
increase the customer engagement as social media as been proved as the most effective
marketing source.
Legal Factor: it refers to the laws and regulation of the country that may affect the
organisation. Vaara can be affected by the Legal factors as the consideration of some laws
are necessary in order to reduce barriers in the organisation. Such as
international trade agreement
Product safety laws
Labour laws
Consumer safety product regulations
Environmental Factor: it refers to the environmental changes that may affect the organisation.
The role of environmental factor plays an important role in the organisation. Vaara
decreases environmental impact. It is their duty to monitor hazardous substances and
eliminating them to maintain the growth of the organization. Natural ad environmental
friendly products are offered by the organisation to their customers.

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Strength :
the brand recognition in the Country is the major strength of the organisation.
Another strength of the business is the quality products. Sportswear of Vaara are very good in
quality.
Strong and innovative marketing strategy used by the organicist.
The brand is associated with several sports stars as their brand ambassadors.
The products can be purchased globally as the organisation is located at different locations
across the world.
Weakness :
The organisation is not engaged in the diversity of the product range.
The products of Vaara can be sometimes costly due to adoption of innovative changes in the
production of sportswear or technological change in the production.
Stiff competition as the company lead to the high brand switching. He customer of the high
brands switch their loyalty quicker as compare to other normal brands.
Opportunities

The opportunities of the organization is that it provides 20 different comfort friendly design for
the customers each year.
The company is at good position in the market that allows the organization to reach more
customers.
Opportunities can also be taken from the impact of Covid-19. As people are more likely to live
healthy lifestyle.
Expansion of the business in new development area is also a great opportunity that can be taken
by Vaara as it will lead to the better growth and increaser loyal customer.
Threats:
Competitive brands are offering sportswear at more effective price as compare to the price of
Vaara. More styles and varieties are also provided by competitors of the organization.
Pirated and fake products in the market are also a major threat to the organization as it reduce the
sales of the company and lead to the negative impact on the customer regarding brand
image.
Threat of local brand having better position in the internationalisation of the business.

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. Relation of the pestle with the SWOT analysis include the strength of the organisation lead to
the less impact of the factors that are included in the PESTLE analysis.
The use of pestle analysis is done to determine the impact on the organization and swot helps
the organisation to find the proper strategy that helps the organisation reduce the impact of
external factors.
Opportunities are stated in the swot analysis and pestle helps the organisation to identify the
opportunities for the organization.
Preparation of Swot analysis after the Pestle lead to the great opportunity for the organization as
it will help the managers to take effective step in the process of developing an effective
strategy.
The relation between swot and pestle link the internal and external factor of the organisation that
may affect in both positive and negative ways.
Opportunities and threats are the major party of the swot analysis that can be identified with the
help of pestle analysis and written in the swot analysis.

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Another opportunity can be taken from the external factors such as the technological changes in
the environment showed that people are more likely to purchase products from online
websites.
Opportunity can be taken from the Pestle analysis as the adoption of the technological tools can
be very helpful in the increase of the sale in the organisation.
However, in a critical evaluation the competitors of Vaara are major threat in the growth of the
organisation as they are providing products at more range of variety and effective price
. The advantage can be taken by strong and innovative marketing strategy used by the managers
of the organisation.

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Online references
OUR PROGRAMS, 2021. [Online]. Available through
<https://www.accesssport.org.uk/Pages/Category/our-programmes>
UK Sport Structure, 2021. [Online]. Available through
<https://www.uksport.gov.uk/about-us/uk-sport-structure>