Organizational Types, Functions and Structure

Organizational Types,
Functions and Structure

Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Explain the different types of organizations, including their size and scope................................................4
Size and scope of the various types of the organizations.............................................................................5
Explain different types and purposes of the organizations; public, private and voluntary sectors and legal
structures.....................................................................................................................................................5
Explain the size and scope of a range of different types of organizations....................................................6
Analyzing how structure, size, and scope of various types of organization are linked to business
objectives and the products and services offered by the organization..........................................................7
Demonstrate the interrelationship of the various functions within an organization and how they link to
organizational structure...............................................................................................................................8
Organizational chart of Toyota................................................................................................................9
Advantages and disadvantages of the interrelationships between various organizational functions and its
impact on the organizational structure.......................................................................................................10
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................10
References.................................................................................................................................................12

Introduction
With the ramified economic changes and increasing complexity in the process, every
business entrepreneur incorporates the business entity as per his business requirements and
demand in market. In this report, different organization structure, scope, size and various
boundaries related to organizational structure have been discussed. This report reveals the key
challenges and size to formulate particular type of organization and the purpose to formulate
particular type of organization. The aim of the paper is to focus on the different types of the
organizations, their sizes, and scope, further, the paper discusses the relationship between various
functions and departments an organization has and they are linked to the structure of the
organization. In the starting of this report,, brief explanation of different types of organization
including its size and scope has been discussed. After that, interrelationship of various functions
within organization and how it link to organizational structure have been discussed in effective
manner. It will be useful to identify the key challenges and issues for new business entrepreneur
while incorporating the particular type of organization.

Explain the different types of organizations, including their size and scope.
Generally, there are five types of major categories of organizations, namely, Public,
Governmental organization, (Public organizations), cooperatives, charities and NGO’s and
Private organizations. In the private sector the ownership is by an individual owner (sole
proprietorship) or a group of two or more individuals (partnerships) (Bouckaert, Peters, &
Verhoest, 2016). The private organizations are set up for an aim to earn revenue in order to
generate profit. In the private organizations, Sainsbury is considered as the top private global
company. The private organizations can further be divided into sole traders, partnerships,
cooperatives and limited companies. The literature review suggests that the country’s public
sector economy is government controlled. In England, The National Health Service, the NHS is
one such popular Government public organization (Bryson, 2018).
The involuntary sector, on the other hand, majorly covers the bodies for charity, these are
not for profit organizations, and also, nongovernmental organizations, therefore, often termed as
NGOs. In the UK cancer research is one such organization which is voluntary and not for profit.
Contrary to these organizations, there are workplaces such as McDonalds, Toyota UK, which
have sectors such as, people, management, human resources and other material resources,
objectives and goals to achieve. Such organizations are based upon a different set up in order to
generate revenue to earn profits and market share (Charles Jr, Schmidheiny, & Watts, 2017).
However, these organizations also invest into Corporate Social Responsibilities to uplift the
society, which is free of cost and not for profit. The literature states, that Toyota is a sole trader’s
organization. Consequently, Toyota does not necessarily require the legal formalities in order to
develop the business. Given that, it is a sole trader company, the owner enjoys and controls the
business. Japan has it’s headquarter and Japan carry out the entire business operation. It’s the
management of the organization who decides the working hours and time and also the working
pattern to be followed. Despite the fact that the business operation of Toyota is according to the
skills and interests of the top level management, the Human resource management is in close
relationship with the internal customers (employees) and the marketing team is in the close
relations with the external customers, they take care of the marketing, branding, advertising, and
servicing. There are certain disadvantages to being a sole trader, that there is an unlimited