Business and the Business Environment: Types of Organizations and their Functions

This report discusses different types of organizations, including private, public, and voluntary organizations, and their purposes. It also covers the size and scope of incompatible organizations such as JD Sports, UK Athletics, and Amateur clubs. The report explains the relationship between different organizational functions and their link to objectives and structure. It concludes that the business environment plays a crucial role in an organization's decision-making and future growth.

Business and the Business
Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
P1 Describe about dissimilar kinds of organisations, their purposes such as private, public,
legal structures and voluntary sectors..........................................................................................4
P2: Size, Mission, Vision, Objective and Scope of incompatible organisations.........................5
P3 P3 Explain about the relationship between dissimilar functions of organisation and in
which manner they link to organisational objectives and structure ...........................................6
Conclusion....................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Business environment refers to the factors which affect the operations of company that includes competitors, customers,
industry trends, stakeholders, industry trends, social factors and technological developments as well. In the present report, three
companies are taken into consideration from sports industry which are JD Sports, UK Athletics and Amateur clubs. JD Sports is
basically a retail company from British context that is headquartered in Bury, Great Manchester, England and it has shops in various
countries and continents such as Europe, United Kingdom, Asia, United States, Australia, New Zealand as well (Asongu and
Odhiambo., 2019). UK Athletics is responsible for overseeing the governance of athletic events in UK and act as governing body for
the sports of athletics in United Kingdom country. Amateur sports club where participants engage largely or entirely without
remuneration. The present report will cover discussion about different types of organisation and about the size and scope of different
types of organisation. In addition to this, the report will cover analysis about relationship between different organisational functions
and also about positive and negative impacts the macro environment has on business operations. Moreover, the report will cover
analysis about internal and external analysis of particular organisation and also about interrelation of strengths and weaknesses with
external macro factors.

Part 1
Private Organisation: Private organisation refers to person, partnership,
agency and corporation that is not operated through public body or by profits.
These are the organisations which are not operated from government and also
include those businesses which have been run for profit purpose. The focus of
private sector organisation is to earn more money and recruit more number of
employees as compared to the public sector.
JD Sports(Private): JD Sports is a company which was established in the year
of 1983 through John Wardle and Dvid Makin. It is the company which has
been established as the famous UK retailer specialist of casual, sports wear and
fashionable brand (Geiger., 2017). The company has initiate its journey from a
single shop and now has expanded itself in the entire UK country. It has
opened a total of fifty-six stores, by the year of 1996.
Purpose: The company's purpose is to deliver sustainable earnings growth of
long term in order to enhance total shareholder returns by dividends and share
price performance. It has been done through while retaining their financial
capability to invest in the sustainability of their propositions and growth.
Legal Structure: The legal structure of JD Sports basically comes
under the category of limited liability company. In the year of 2005, from their
founder, John Wardle and David Makin pentland group basically acquired
45% of JD Sports fashion plc. It has 2500 retail outlets on the worldwide basis
and now Pentland group is the majority owner of JD sports.
P1 Describe about dissimilar kinds of organisations, their purposes such as
private, public, legal structures and voluntary sectors
Public organisation: Public sector basically consist of government and all
publicly controlled funded agencies that delivers public programs, goods
and services as well. Their main objective is to remove poverty, attain the
self-reliance, reduction in income inequalities, removal of regional
imbalances as well.
UK Athletics(Public): UK Athletics is basically focused towards UK
country and act as governing body for sports of athletics. UK athletics is
mainly responsible for governance of athletics events overseeing in that
country along with athletes, their athletics officials and development as
well.
Purpose: The main purpose of UK Athletics is to give motivation
to all kinds of athletes and runners according to their backgrounds and
abilities in order to fulfil their potential and love for the sports as well.
Legal Structure: UK athletics basically limited by guarantee and
structured as non-profit company(Eniola and Entebang., 2015). They have
four member organisations and they are from the constituent countries of
United Kingdom: Scottish athletics, England athletics, Northern Ireland
Athletics and Welsh athletics. UK Athletics covered under the structure of
corporations.

P2 Size and Scope of incompatible organizations
There are different types of organizations in this business world and it
majorly covers from three different sectors which are private, public and
voluntary organizations. Private organization have different size according to
their requirement as compared to public and voluntary organizations. The
scope of private organizations. They basically aim for profit maximization
and sales as well. Public organization only embraces for activities of
government and all the actions are taken for country's advancement and
development. The scope of voluntary organization to increase the variety of
organizations and groups, ranging in scale, organizational structure.
Size and scope of JD sports
It is a British fashion sport company which deals in business of retail sports
material. The business operation of the company is spread in many nations
such as United Kingdom, Europe, United states, New Zealand and Australia.
Voluntary Organisation: These groups basically enter into an agreement
and it is a kind of union or voluntary group. They act usually as volunteers
to form a body or to accomplish a purpose into positive manner. The aim of
voluntary organisation is to fulfil their mission and work towards greater
good in certain specific way.
Amateur Sports Club: This sports club was introduced in the year
of 2002 by labour government to support in terms of grass root sport. It is
basically recognised as the importance of sports in the community by
allowing local amateur sports club to register with HM revenue and
customs as sports club rather than a business for tax and rates purposes.
Purpose: The main purpose of amateur sports club is to provide
facilities for an eligible sport and to encourage participation in a particular
sport.
Legal Structure: Amateur sports club recognised as an
unincorporated association which bound by common rules (Jerman and
et.al., 2019). When incorporated that makes the club a separate legal entity
which means that club members are not basically responsible for its debts.

There are number of stores of company are running in these countries
which provided huge customer base and revenue generation. In the year
1983 company has opened their first ever store in Manchester and the
stores of the company are increases day by day and currently the
organisation operates most of the market share with their large number of
stores in the many countries of the world. The size of the organisation are
increases day by the day due to the effective strategies of the company.
The vision of JD sports is very far because the management of the
organisation believes in strategic alliance with other brands and company
to expand their business in many countries. The management of JD sports
has made alliance many reputed brand of the world such as Puma, Nike,
Adidas and many more (Kankaanranta and et.al., 2015). These alliances
express the expansion vision of the organisation.
Size and scope of UK Athletics
UK Athletics is a governing body of the athletics in the United
Kingdom, all the activities related to the athletes are controlled by this
authority. It is a non-profit organisation which has objective to serve the
country and push the sports in the country at different level. This
organisation is based on United Kingdom so the branches of these are
spread within the country and the members of this company are the
representatives of the government.
The scope of this organisation is limited to the jurisdiction of company. All the
events related to the training, development and competition are organised
by this company. The main objective of this organisation is related to the
promotion of sports activities in the country. There are also many illegal
activities are done in sports and this organisation protect the game from
this malfunction.
Size and scope of Amateur clubs
It is sports club which is developed by the labor government with an aim to
encourage the sport in the country. There is a fixed and systematic
framework are developed by this club under which the new and emerging
athletes are providing to enhance their sporting activities. This is possible
due to the management and organizing of various sports events in the
country (Machmud and Sidharta., 2016). This organisation also perform an
activity to search the hidden talent from the country and provide them
platform for their success.
P3 Explain about the relationship between dissimilar functions of organisation
and in which manner they link to organisational objectives and structure
Organizational structure can be stated as the structure of hierarchy
which consists of all the management, supervisory and subordinate level
members of the company to run a chain of communication among various
departments in rhythmic manner.

Functional: Under this form of structure small group of people are formed
according to their functions, skills and responsibilities who are
supervised and managed under a single superior (Niedermeier and
et.al., 2016). There lies centralisation of power in one hand where one
person has the authority whereas rest of the people works under
control of that person. There is a rigidity of this form of framework in
an organisation where all the people have to report under a single
head. This kind of structure is followed by the amateur sports club.
Divisional: This type of structure supports division of people in various
departments according to their specialisation and knowledge of work.
For each department, one head is appointed under whom subordinates
are kept. This form of hierarchy division the flow of authority and
responsibility is flows upward to downward which means that a
person at top will have highest responsibility and authority. This type
of structure is followed by the UK Athletics.
Matrix: It is a mixture of functional along-with divisional structure in
which flow of information is not restricted to superior subordinate
communication and flows freely. In this form of structure, the
employees are headed by many leaders that may create chaos in flow
of information and smooth working of employees. This kind of
structure is followed by the JD Sports.
Flat: Small business entities mainly applies this form of structure which
follows a single strand of horizontal chain for the flow of command and
reactions (Singh and et. al., 2020). The superiors and subordinates are the
similar in authority and responsibility.
JD Sports follows matrix form of structure because the activities of this
business are focused on retail business. The activities which has been
conducted in this organisation does not require particular skills and action plan
to be executed in order to gain high sales(JD Sports Fashion). Every individual
hired is working together to attain high sales objective and attracts more and
more customers towards themselves.The functions performed by JD Sports are
interlinked to each other and to management objectives and structures. Their
interlinked connection is elaborated below:
HR and Finance: These functions in an organisation are highly coiled
to each other and affects themselves significantly. Within an organisation
human resource activities can be conducted into effective manner when there is
proper support from finance department. Under JD Sports they have managed
the activities of human resource into result oriented manner and in order to
provide remuneration to the employees it is necessary that they ensure that they
have enough fund for this purpose.
Marketing and R&D: Marketing becomes effective when research and
development strategies and techniques have been applied into effective manner.
(Pearson and et.al., 2015). Research and development is the key of doing
marketing into effective manner that's why they are related to each other JD
Sports has done marketing through support of social media channels after
studying the market into appropriate manner.
CONCLUSION
The above stated report concludes that business environment plays a very
important role in the context of an organisation’s decision making and future
growth and development as well. Thats why it is necessary for the organisation.

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