Business and Business Environment: An Analysis of Barclays Bank

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Business and business environment
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Table of Contents
LIST OF FIGURES.............................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................. 4
LO1 & LO2......................................................................................................................................5
1. THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THE GROWTH OF THE INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS................................................................................................................................... 5
EXPLANATION OF THE CHOSEN ORGANIZATION IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF ORGANISATIONS.....9
JCB........................................................................................................................................... 13
LEGAL STRUCTURE OF THE JCB................................................................................................14
DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS OF BARCLAYS BANK USING ORGANIZATIONAL CHART......................15
2. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF FUNCTIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THEIRS RELATIONSHIP
OF THE STRUCTURE................................................................................................................. 16
THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGE OF FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT....................17
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT AND THEIR IMPACTS ON THE STRUCTURE
OF THE ORGANISATIONS......................................................................................................... 17
LO3 & LO4.................................................................................................................................... 18
1. USING PESTLE ANALYSIS TOOL TO IDENTIFY AND DISCUSS THE VARIOUS FACTORS OF THE
MACRO ENVIRONMENTAL THAT IMPACT ON THE BUSINESS, AND ALSO HIGHLIGHTING THE
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS..........................................................................................18
2. APPLY A SWOT OR TOWS ANALYSIS TO BARCLAYS BANK TO IDENTIFY THEIR STRENGTHS
AND WEAKNESSES. AND ALSO EXPLAIN THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF THESE WITH THE
EXTERNAL FACTORS PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED..........................................................................21
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................... 25
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................26
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Different types of organisations......................................................................................5
FIGURE 2: Organisational STRUCTURE OF JCB...............................................................................6
Figure 3: Organisation structure of Barclays..................................................................................7
Figure 4: Organisational structure of the British heart foundation................................................8
Figure 5: Legal structure of the Barclays bank.............................................................................10
Figure 6: Legal structure of the British heart foundation.............................................................12
Figure 7: Legal structure of the JCB............................................................................................. 14
Figure 8: organisational chart of the Barclays bank.....................................................................15
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INTRODUCTION
This report is an analysis of how the organization work under different work climate and how
the internal and external factors affect the organization in different ways. Further, the report
will inter-relate the organization with its functions operating in different departments. This
report has carried out different analysis like SWOT and PEST analysis to check the positive and
negative effects of the macro environment. The report will give us information about Barclay’s
strengths and weaknesses and how the organization should manage to be in the market.
The Barclays is a multinational bank and it has different financial services, Barclays is a British
based band headquartered in London. This bank was founded on 17 November 1690. Besides
its investment banking business, Barclays bank offers four other types of investment like
personal banking, corporate banking, investment management and wealth management.
Barclay’s bank is a public organization. The Barclays bank operates in 50 countries and has more
than 144000 employees working for Barclays in worldwide. Barclays has an impressive no. of
clients that is 48 million worldwide.
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LO1 & LO2
1. THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THE GROWTH OF THE
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
There are mainly three different types of organization
Figure 1: Different types of organisations
(Source: Author’s work, 2019)
1. PRIVATE ORGANIZATION
The private organization is that organization that works independently, without the
interference of the government is called the private organization. The organisation's sole
purpose is to earn a profit. This organization is run by the individuals or a group for the
purpose of earning the profit, the private organizations are more in number as compared to
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Three types of
organization
Public sector
Government
Sector
private sector
Private
Ownership
voluntary
sector
Non profit
organisation

other in every country as the organization does not require much finance and resources to
start. The organization can be started by the limited use of finance and technology. This
type of private organization helps the middle-class people to invest in small business and
earn a profit (Johnson et al., 2017).
FIGURE 2: Organisational STRUCTURE OF JCB
(Source Lin et al.,2015)
PUBLIC SECTOR
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Public Sector organisation is run by the government for the welfare of the people living in the
country. This organization works for the mass not for the individual with a purpose to provide
safety and security to the nation and their people like the military, hospitals, and different
government institutes. These types of an organization also generate job opportunities for the
country's people the public sector organisations large no of people are involved and the carry
out different work for the organisations (Van Dooran et al.,2015).
Example of this type of organisation is Barclays bank.
Figure 3: Organisation structure of Barclays
(Source Williams and Conley, 2015)
VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION
The voluntary sector is also termed as the community sector.This type of organisation is formed
by the people for the welfare of the community.These organizations are a non-profit
organization and are run by the groups of people or it is run by the big corporates with a motive
to help the needy. With a purpose to serve the people and provide them with employment and
also help them by giving shelter. There are hospitals with free medical assistance (Mellor,
2018).
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The example of the voluntary organisation is the British heart foundation.
Figure 4: Organisational structure of the British heart foundation
(Source Brown et al., 2017)
GROWTH OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
The business is growing internationally and very rapidly. The government policies for import
and export in very helpful for the growth of business in the international market. There are
various factors and opportunities for the growth of the international business like resources,
availability of the raw material low-cost labour etc. demand for the product and customer
requirement is one of the main factors of the international growth of the business markets (van
Dooren et al., 2015). In most of the developing countries, because of their limited resources
they are producing a similar product. This has led the domestic market saturated. Most of the
developing countries are helping other countries FDI and by other foreign policies are helping
for business growth. Use of technology is also one of the important factors of the growth of
international business (van Dooren et al., 2015).
Nowadays the business is no more restricted to the state boundaries but the business is going
global because of the advancement of the technology. The reduction of the trade barrier
between different countries and the relaxing policies are also helpful in an increase in the
growth of the international market. Advancement of the technology has helped businesses with
the help of internet that allows the businesses to know the demands and requirements of the
other countries (Mathews et al., 2016).
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EXPLANATION OF THE CHOSEN ORGANIZATION IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF
ORGANISATIONS
BACKGROUND
Barclays is a British based multinational investment bank headquartered in London. The
company was founded in November 1690. Apart from investment banking, the other services
that Barclays provides are personal banking, corporate banking etc. The Barclays bank is more
than 300 years old bank.
PRODUCT AND SERVICES
Barclays is one of the leading financial institutes of the UK. Barclays offers different types of
services other than banking that is, investment banking, wealth management, retail banking
and commercial banking services. Barclays is also listed in the London stock exchange and in
New York stock exchange. Barclays also provide a customized solution for the corporate
industries and advise them to invest in equity and raise its debt etc. Barclays provides mortgage
loan as 1.5 million people in the UK owns home because of Barclays (Maina, 2017).
SIZE AND SCOPE
Barclays adopt and flexible approach for the clients to share the knowledge for their investment
in a different field and offer them to expand their business to an international level. The total
no of employs working in Barclays bank is 47 thousand worldwide. The Barclays bank is working
in 50 different counties and has 4500 no of branches all over the world (Maina, 2017)
VISION
The vision of Barclays is to attain growth in the business environment and overcome the
challenges of the market and to offer the best services to the clients.
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MISSION
The mission of the Barclays is to innovate different services so that the customers can grow in a
diverse market and Barclay do research and formulate a different strategy to deal with the
complexities nature of the market (Maina, 2017).
KEY STAKEHOLDERS
The key stakeholders of the Barclays include the customers, the external suppliers, alliances
partners, and various other companies and organizations worldwide.
LEGAL STRUCTURE
Figure 5: Legal structure of the Barclays bank
(Source: Rogers, 2016)
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BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION
BACKGROUND
British heart foundation is a voluntary organization in the UK. The organization was founded in
1961 the organization is concerned with the increased cardiovascular disease and death rate.
PRODUCT AND SERVICES
The British heart foundation is one of the most prominent voluntary organizations of the UK.
The organization has different services related to the working of the heart and heart disease.
The organization is working and planning, to decrease the rate of heart disease and premature
heart failure (Kizuna and Gogo, 2017).
SIZE AND SCOPE
The British heart foundation is working to improve the heart working and reduce the risk of
heart disease. This organization has large no of employs working worldwide to provide support
to the poor and the general public. The organization has different centres in different parts of
the world, the organization carry different campaign in different underdeveloped and
developing countries to help them get informed about heart disease (Lassale, 2017)
VISION
The British Heart Foundation has the vision to provide the people with the best services in
health care. The organization is working to bring awareness about the health of the heart
(Kizuna and Gogo, 2017).
MISSION
The British heart foundation has a mission to win the fight of cardiovascular disease. The
organization ensures quality care and support for everyone who is suffering from heart disease.
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