Detailed Report: Unit 1 - Business and Business Environment Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the business environment, analyzing various organizational types including public, private, and voluntary sectors. It delves into their legal and organizational structures, exploring the size and scope of different organizations. The report examines the relationships between organizational functions and objectives, using examples such as PRIMARK. Furthermore, it assesses the strengths and weaknesses of organizations, incorporating internal and external analyses, including Porter's Five Forces and the influence of macro factors like political, economic, and socio-cultural influences. The report offers a detailed examination of these aspects, providing a holistic view of the business environment and its implications.

Unit 1. Business and Business Environment

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Task 1: Various types and objectives of organisations; public, private, legal structures and
voluntary sectors..............................................................................................................................1
Public Sector Organisations.........................................................................................................1
Divisional structures.................................................................................................................1
Horizontal structures................................................................................................................1
Vertical structures.....................................................................................................................1
Private sector organisations.........................................................................................................1
Voluntary Groups.....................................................................................................................1
Partnership................................................................................................................................1
Company..................................................................................................................................1
The size and scope of a range of different types of organisations...............................................1
Sole-proprietorship...................................................................................................................1
Division of various departments in an organisation.....................................................................1
Division of marketing departments..........................................................................................1
Division of diverse functional departments..............................................................................1
Division of various geographic regions....................................................................................1
Division of product departments..............................................................................................1
Organisational Structure Matrix...............................................................................................1
Strategic Business Units...........................................................................................................1
Task 2: Relationship between different organisational functions and linking with organisational
objectives and structures..................................................................................................................1
Divisional Structure.....................................................................................................................1
Functional Structures...................................................................................................................1
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Matrix Structure...........................................................................................................................1
Public...........................................................................................................................................1
Technical and Industrial...........................................................................................................1
Task 4: Recognition of the strengths and weaknesses, Internal and external analysis of specific
organisations should be done...........................................................................................................1
Strengths.......................................................................................................................................1
Strong points.............................................................................................................................1
Existing and upcoming prospects.............................................................................................1
Threats..........................................................................................................................................1
Examination via Porter’s Five Forces..........................................................................................1
Power of Suppliers...................................................................................................................1
Power of Buyers.......................................................................................................................1
New Applicants hazards...........................................................................................................1
Substitutes Threat.....................................................................................................................1
Industry Opposition..................................................................................................................1
Demographic influences...........................................................................................................1
Natural influencers...................................................................................................................1
Economic influencers...............................................................................................................1
Socio-cultural influences..........................................................................................................1
Task 3: Strengths and Weaknesses linked with external macro factors..........................................1
Political Influencers.....................................................................................................................1
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................1
References........................................................................................................................................1
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Introduction
The given assignment will summarise the environment and scenario where the businesses
run their operations and assess the significance of the characteristics and features. These
important activities are mandatory to drive the business processes and do through analysis of the
business functionalities.
In the below-mentioned assignment, four tasks have been described in a well-
organizedmanner. Various types and purposes of the organisations like public sector, the private
sector and the voluntary sectors having their legal, organisational structures are being discussed.
The scope and range of different types of organisations are outlined. Moreover, the relationship
between different organisations’ functions along with the PRIMARK’ functions are established.
P1. Explain different types and purposes of organisations; public, private and voluntary
sectors and legal structures.
Task 1: Various types and objectives of organisations; public, private, legal structures and
voluntary sectors
The objective, purpose and need of various organisations are stated below:
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Public Sector Organisations
Specifically, for the common people, these public-sector organisations are regulated and
controlled by the government. The people are liable to pay taxes to the government, and this is
further invested in the public sector. The only aim of these public-sector organisations is to
convey the essential public sector services and to the advantage of the public to take these
resources into account (Cummings & Worley, 2014). Additionally, the public sector has three
wide standpoints as a buyer, a provider and a producer.
As a producer, the public sector works in an extensive range of services that are available
to its people. Also, the public sector produces some health care and education related services
and some goods (Dananjaya & Kuswanto, 2015). Furthermore, the public sector purchases the
product items to support the industry for providing excellent services such as park equipment and
road building services, etc. Like in case of UK, Tesco is the public limited organization whose
funds are granted by the government. Besides this, they work for the interest of the people. It is
the giant supermarket which is established to fulfil the needs and requirements of the individual.
Regarding the growth of international business environment, it has expanded its operations many
other countries.
The types of organisational structures in the public sector are stated below:
Divisional structures
In these kinds of structures, they segregate the tasks and available responsibilities which
are dependent on market territories such as force or geography. The courts follow this effective
system and structure allowing for the public sector. These structures formulate set objectives.
Horizontal structures
In these types of structures, there are a few positions at the top and other bottom next
levels. The supervisors are very limited, but there is an excess of colleagues. This structure is a
very common and effective structure pursued in most of the organisations like law firms,
architecture and medical firms also. The available personnel or employees in these structures
work in collaboration (Doherty et al., 2014).
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Vertical structures
In the vertical kinds of structures, there are some people at the top level and some are
growing in the middle, and some are at the lower level status. It clearly indicates that there are
somepeople who have authorities for making the decisions and policies (Fowler, 2013).
However, there are so many people who execute those decisions. Typically, the governments’
move in the direction of these arrangements since the job started. The scope is very well defined,
organised and managed. Every person has the right to the position and power. For illustration;
the military follows this effective structure.
Private sector organisations
These well-reputed business firms are controlled and managed by private people like
partnerships, sole traders and franchises. The basic objective of these organisations is to increase
the profit along with the sales. This market share will be raised, and growth will be high. They
are concerned in meeting the expectations of the customers but with the motive of earning profit.
There is no intervention of government in the activities and operations of the firm. All decisions
are taken by the owners or the stakeholders of the company. For e.g. – virgin Atlantic is private
organization which aims at earning revenue. It has expanded its business in other countries and it
serving cities like Tokyo, Mumbai etc.
Non profit organization
As the name suggests it does not work for profit of the organization. The organization is
made for the betterment of the society. It is basically dedicated to the social cause or the issue
which is prevailing in the society. The sources of finance come from the donations, and further
the government also grants them finance to carry out the activities. Cancer research in UK is one
of the non- profitable organizations and it has expanded its research areas in other countries.
Voluntary Groups
Voluntary groups are never made or managed by the individuals or the governments.
However, there are some people who are responsible for making it sure all of the targets and the
budgets of the business are set accordingly in a proper manner. These types of organisations take
the initiative to assist and guide the blinds or the animals (KUMAR, 2014). These organisations
run by the donations and grants by the Govt. Mainly, the Government offers the power of
decision making by the individual e.g. the executive members of the organisation to manage the
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works of voluntary groups. These groups are intended to work for the interest of public, not for
their motives.
Partnership
This type is a sort of business in which there are 2 or more partners; they do share the
business load, pressure, profits and losses as well. Also, they do share their working skills and
capabilities along with investing the sum of money in the business (Döckel & Ligthelm, 2015).
The basic motto of the partnership is improving the communication link and improving the
services given to the customers. All the partners take a mutual decision, and they do devote their
time to work towards getting more and more productivity and in turn the accountability. Further,
if the organization is successful in their operations, then with the mutual understanding they
expand their market to other different countries. The growth of partnership firms in international
market is good.
Company
These types of businesses are run by shareholders invest shares as capital in the
organisation. All the shareholders invest their income share in the business as the dividends.
Companies are formed with the motive to develop and enhance the performance. So, the
company takes into consideration the techniques to retain the employees, the safety of employees
and cutting the cost of training the employees (Hughes, 2012). All of these measures are used for
assuring that the services are delivered to the customers with great quality and making the
business more efficient, enhancing the productivity of the business. In addition to it, the
company should offer the complete reliability of all of the products. This form will, in turn,
improve the performance of the business from a financial aspect.
Shares in the business limit the enterprises commercially; they are entitled to use PLC or
simply limited along with the company name. This framework is very much important to be
followed from a legal point of view (KUMAR, 2014). As per the words of Hughes, the main
advantage of the limited liability company is that it gives assurance to the people of low risk in
investing in their company. This is the reason that they can grow in the international business.
The risk is low so it becomes easy for the company to make decisions to increase their target
market. The reason behind this low risk is their understanding of their losses that is confined to
the total amount that they have given consent to invest in the company.
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P2. Explain the size and scope of a range of different types of organisations.
The size and scope of a range of different types of organisations
The structure of the organisation infers the way how the organisation is working and
which way the people are performing their duties in the offices to fulfil the motives and aims of
the organisation. While developing the organisation, there are some decisions which the
management is required to take. Some of these are:
Division of labour: The organisation is formed in such a way that the labours are divided
based on their duties and the skills.
Departmentalization: All the works done by the workers are very well organised in the
way till the organisation does not get big.
Authority and control: All the decisions taken by the authority shall be determined and
allotted well in advance. Further, a total number of people and the responsibility will be
controlled and are grouped properly.
The purposes and objectives of different types of business organisations are as follows.
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Sole-proprietorship
Sole Proprietorship is that kind of business that has no existence separately then its
owner. All the incomes, as well as the losses incurred in the business, are always taxed on the
owner’s personal ITR (income tax return). In this people used to work individually on a specific
task like an electrician or any AC repair person. As per Fowler, 2013, the main motive of this
type of business is that it creates much work for the individuals who deal with a sole
proprietorship. In this, it also includes the private organization; Virgin Atlantic is a private
company whose mission is to make the products according to the needs and expectations of the
customers. Besides this, their vision is to become one of the leading organizations in terms of the
market share. This is the organizational structure of virgin airlines.
Figure 1: organizational structure of virgin airlines
Besides this, PepsiCo Ltd is a public limited organization and it is the large company in size. It
operates worldwide by providing different types of products and services. The mission of the
organization is to become the leading premier consumer products and provide financial rewards
to the investors. On the other hand, the vision of the organization is to serve the society by
delivering positive impact to the consumers. The stakeholders of the organization are the ample
of customers, government and the investors.
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Figure 2: organizational structure of PepsiCo
If you either have excess or surplus of money, or you have borrowed money from
anyone you can very easily start sole proprietorship with this much money. There are so many
options available by following them individually and the person correlated with that business get
enough power to work with self-confidence without any orders by the reporting boss. Because
they are the bosses so, they can take decisions on their own. Customers and the sole proprietors
are linked to no mediator is here. It is observed that this type of business is very small.
Division of various departments in an organisation
Many organisations associate and combine the jobs in diverse ways and different parts of
the organisation. There are four broadly used bases such as functional departmentalization,
product, geographic and customer departmentalization (Baker, 2012).
Division of marketing departments
All the companies are intended to work as per the requirements of the customers and the
dealings with the company. For example, if the organisation deals with marketing and selling the
products to the businesses or government and the consumers then it must be having separate
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divisions for all the customers. It is mandatory to train all the employees so that they can make
their best efforts to meet the customer’s requirements in an efficient way (Anheier, 2014).
Division of diverse functional departments
The functions of an infirmary would comprise of nursing, billing, surgery, operation,
housekeeping and psychiatry. The organisations have many benefits of proficiency keeping these
features at the base (Harper, 2015). When functional departmentalization is facilitated it
everything is managed and grouping these jobs necessitate the related skills, competency,
knowledge and resources which facilitate them to do everything efficiently and boosts the
progress and growth of the organisation in an enhanced manner.
In an organisation, each organisation is given certain duties and jobs for the proper
functioning of the business. Herein, for instance, there are essential accountabilities and
functions assigned to people and firms like for manufacturing company the functions are of
manufacturing, producing, purchasing, advertising, accounting and employees (Kang, 2015).
Division of various geographic regions
While working in the organisation these physical impediments which obstruct and hinder
the success in the way the organisation that make it completely successful (Lawton et al., 2015).
The important features of specific area or place are favourable and advantageous to advertise the
products in local areas. If we must advertise a product in Easter America, then indeed it is having
some different needs and requirements than the ones which are to be used in advertising and
selling the products in Western Asia. So, the companies must focus on the geographical area
while calculating and observing the success of the organisation. The organisations which are
spread over an extensive area have multiple benefits when they deal in their businesses which are
held on geographical lines so that all the functions are managed in very efficient and proper way.
Division of product departments
Some examples of these are the top managers who are responsible for having the rights
over all the functions. The main benefit of these types of organisations is that all of the
employees of the same group could completely have control over the direction on attending the
meeting with the clients and are also held responsible for the specific product and so, they have
got expertise in their respective fields (Miner, 2015). All of the large and multi-national
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companies are structured and maintained product wise. In the words of Lawton, all of the
functions which are mandatory for the production and marketing of the products which are same
are grouped in different ways.
Organisational Structure Matrix
Here, the company might deal with different kinds of products so there are possibilities
that the products can be expanded. So this way, the company would be requiring good
production, marketing and research on the products. This type of organisation is an
amalgamation of 2 or more than two types of companies. They never get fit into any of
organisational structures; hence they form a kind of matrix and are the good combination of
several organisations to form the one. As per Mowday, the employees working in such kind of
organisations dedicatedly work for products as well as for the organisational benefits (Scott &
Davis, 2015).
The main benefit associated with this type of organisation is that for undertaking different
types of functions, they do consider using different talents and the equipment. In this
organisation, the resources are never over utilised instead they are shared in a very efficient way.
Further, carrying out the functions of the departments they do advertise for the expertise required
and same way, it has another method to get new ideas, thoughts and suggestions. Noteworthy,
though there are several advantages of this type or organisation, yet some of the disadvantages
are also associated here that is due to the dual reporting structure (Miner, 2015). So, the top
management takes it into consideration that there must be transparency while making any
communication so that there should not be any issue between the employees and the company’s
functionality should not hamper.
Strategic Business Units
There is a method called restructuring to get the functioning of the organisation done in a
proper way. The administration keeps developing and growing on the development of the
business. This way, the needs of the business are met continuously (Mowday et al., 2013).
However, making such type of changes in the organisation makes it as a bureaucracy and which
in turn becomes a factor of obstruction in its success. There is another way that is reorganising
the organisation into several different groups that are altogether different, are known as strategic
business units. These units are managed like separate companies regarding profits and loss
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