Types of Organizations: Public, Private, and Voluntary Sectors

Unit name: Unit 1: Business and Business Environment (HND)
Iveta Conkova

Contents
Explain different types and purposes of organisations; public, private and voluntary sectors and
legal structures.....................................................................................................................................2
Public sector:.....................................................................................................................................2
Private sector....................................................................................................................................2
Voluntary sector:..............................................................................................................................3
Explain the size and scope of a range of different types of organization............................................3
Analyse how the structure, size, and scope of different organisations link to the business
objectives and product and services offered by the organisations.....................................................4
Explain the relationship between different organisational functions and how they link to
organisational objectives and structure...............................................................................................5
Analyse the interrelationships between organisational functions and the impact that can have
upon organisational structure..............................................................................................................6
Use contemporary examples to demonstrate both the positive and negative influence/impact the
macro environment has on business operations.................................................................................7
Determine the internal strengths and weaknesses of specific businesses and their interrelationship
with external macro factors.................................................................................................................7
References:.........................................................................................................................................13

Explain different types and purposes of
organisations; public, private and voluntary
sectors and legal structures.
Growing organization are playing most key feature for the recent time progress. Organization
describes as the structured social system where certain community, groups or individual are
working to reach the specific objectives. Different organization are having different
objectives. These organizations also can be segmented infer different tyres like ownership,
size, scopes, objectives etc. There are different functions and department that the organization
is having and it is important to make better attachment with the goal by having solid direction
to all these divisions and functions.
Organizations can be segmented as ownership, purposes, size and operational areas. Most of
the organization can be segmented into 3 types like public sector, private sector and voluntary
sector.
Public sector:
Public sector organization are running under the government regulations. These organization
are mostly providing services to improve the community and citizen life in the country.
Utility, hospital, school, colleges, transportation are the base services o the public sector
organization. They are promoting better society and ensuring living standards for the citizens
in the country. These organization are running under the government body and also funds are
supplies by the government of the country. These organization are not growing to earn the
profit but they are charring their services as the government earning fund and utilize the fund
to the public community development gain (Hasselbladh, 2013).
These public sector organizational re having separate legal identity that shows making better
control, operating and guiding the operation of the organization. All the liabilities and
revenues are handled by the government of the country and also strategy and operational
structures of the organization sets by the government bodies. BBC, NHS are the major
examples of public sector organization.
Private sector
There are different types of private sector organization are operating where these organization
can be segmented under different types under size, scopes, actual margin, employees number
etc. private sector organization are running to reach the further profit marina and also make
better wealth maximization for the business. These private sector organization can have
different legal structure, capital margin, business structure etc. These business can be
segmented in terms of ownership that shows sole traders, partnership business, limited
business etc. these business also can be segment as small, medium, large types accordant
their operation and employees number (Caprotti, 2017). These organization can also be
segment in terms of their operating coverage like local, national, MNC business. Private
sector organization running under structure and regulation that sets by the owners of these
business. Shareholders are getting more priority in these business and the business measuring
the possible profit margin to set their structure and strategy. Tesco, Asda, H&M are the best
example of private sector organization.

Voluntary sector:
Voluntary organization segment as the business that is running with the no profit features. It
is also important to make better strategic management with the business features that is
running with the voluntary approaches to serve by members and receiving donations from
different parties. In the UK, there are certain directory does need to maintain by these
voluntary organization. Red Cross, Royal charter are playing key type of voluntary
organization. These organization are not having any extra liabilities and also just paying the
operational expenses (Weatherley, 2014).
Cooperative organization is also a types of organization that shows joint effort from members
of this organization that helps to set better profit structure and also running with better
conduct approaches to reach further benefits for their members. These organization are
setting up mostly for the short period to serve specific goal and also connects with total
members. In the UK, there are more than 7000 listed co-operative organization are having.
John Lewis partnership, Britannia Building society are ether example of co-operative
organization in the UK.
Explain the size and scope of a range of different
types of organization
Different types of organization can be segmented under size and scopes. These size and
scopes also attached with the products and services that offered by the business.
National health organization (NHS) is one of the key public sector organization. NHS is one
of the publicly Owned health care services that is providing best Medicare support to the
citizens of UK. It helps to increase quality of life for the people in the UK. This is one of the
non-profit oriented organization hat is charring for the prescriptions fees only. They are
giving free medical advice and even only charging for some major operations. NHS is are
making better innovation process to coming up with innovative solution and innovative
different new medication that helps to ensure sustainable progress of the business. There are
large number of employees does this organization is having and also making better expansion
of their services in all over the country (Rowley, 2016).
Private sector organization shows the organization that owned by general public in the
country. These organizational be segmented as sole traders, partnership and limited types of
business. It is important for the business to make better strategic alignment with the target
customers.
Sole traders are the business that coming up with single owner. It mostly connects with skills
and confidence level of owner. Sole trader’s shows other parties are having no access in the
decision making. It is important for the business to set strategic attachment withal the
components. Sole traders are reaching further revenues margin after paying the tax margin.
On the other hand, all the liabilities that attached with the single owner. This owners are
having more flexibility to make effective strategy growth and having flexibilities to reach
strategic growth. It is also important for this business to make quick and effective excision
form the owner and should run innovative approaches but the business is having more
challenges to make accurate decision (Storey, 2016).