Exploring Business Objectives & Structure: A Comprehensive Analysis

This report provides an analysis of different types of organizations, including public, private, and voluntary sectors, and their legal structures. It explains the size and scope of various organizations, linking their structure to business objectives and the products/services they offer. The report also examines the relationship between organizational functions and their impact on organizational structure, using examples like Transco and M&S to demonstrate the influence of the macro environment on business operations. Furthermore, it identifies internal strengths and weaknesses of specific businesses and their interrelationship with external macro factors, highlighting the importance of strategic alignment for sustained progress.

Unit name: Unit 1: Business and Business Environment (HND)
Student name: Josef CONKA ID: LCC20221229

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
Cooperative organization.................................................................................................................3
Explain the size and scope of a range of different types of organization............................................3
Public sector organization (Size and Scopes):..................................................................................3
Private sector organization (Size and Scopes):.................................................................................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..............................................................................................................5
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:.........................................................................................................................................11

Explain different types and purposes of
organisations; public, private and voluntary
sectors and legal structures.
Organization are playing as the key entities that is running with benefits of the lass people
and improve the opportunities to rich the further needs. Organizations can be divided into
different terms as these organization can be segmented under purpose, objectives, legal
status. Organizations defines under the public, private, voluntary, co-operative, charitable
organization. Different organization are having different characteristics and purposes too.
Public sector:
Public sector organization established by the government and also having different features
and characteristics that running under the government ownership. It also helps to ensure
better strategic growth of the public sector organization. These organizations are owned by
the public enterprises. This organization are running with specific government status and also
running with legal personality. These organization are running with better strategy that
offering products and services to make life easy for general people and also offering more
less expensive approves to ensure better living standards (Bak, 2011).
It is important to analyse the legal structure of the public sector organizations. There are
certain public organizational ordinance that running by the government that passed in
parliament. These organizations are directly supervised form the government body. It is
important to provide better services to here target citizens. Department of children schools
antifamilies are the best example of private sector organization in the UK. In many
department this sector is giving incentives and also approaching t reduce the cost of these
products services. Ensuring electricity, better transpiration, medication are running with the
public sector organization.
Private sector
Private sector organization are founded by the private ownership and also controlling by the
private owners too. These business can be segmented as small, medium and large private and
also can be run as limited, sole traders and partnership type of business. Sole traders are the
most common private business term. It shows business started with ownership capital and can
be added with financial fan but ruby single owner. All the decisions comes from the owner
and also profit and responsibilities hares to the single owner. In the UK, more than 99.99% of
private organizations are running that forms under small and medium forces. These
organizational are running to maximize profits and wreath of the business where owners
provides the capital
Legal structure of the private sector organization can be defines under the sole proprietorship,
partnership and liability limited business. Partnership and sole traders are not having the legal
entity and there are very few control does government is having. Limited business formed
under the company act 2006. It shows better strategic legal entity does these business is
having. Waitrose plc. M&S are the best example of private sector organization in the UK.
These business are running to reach higher profit margin and also maximize their wealth abut
giving concerned over sustainable progress (Beckley, 2012)

Voluntary sector:
Voluntary organization and charitable organization is al a type of organization that shows
offering better advantages to the disadvantaged people and also helps to improve better living
standards. There are many voluntary organization that working for the community
development, researching over cancer, coming up with different solution and medication
process, offering different education to the poor people, running to recover obesity, increase
equality and diversity, increase employment issues in the country. These organization are
connected with the voluntary organization directory authority that shows better progress of
social life.
Cooperative organization
Cooperative organization are the types of organization at formed to meet the social,
economic, cultural and some other needs of people that owned and control. It helps to
concerns living standards of members and also make positive progress of living standards
too. These organization formed under the cooperative benefits act 2014. It is also important
for this organization to set strategic growth too (Blonigen , 2011).
Explain the size and scope of a range of different
types of organization
There are different organization that can be segmented and it is important to segment the
business under size and scope of the business. Private, public, voluntary all types of business
are having different size and scopes of the business. Private business shows that sole traders,
partnership business that coming under different size and opportunities where larger firms are
having large investment margin.
Public sector organization (Size and Scopes):
There are different size, and scopes doe’s different public organization are having. Highway
agency is one of the effective structure of the organization that helps to ensure betterment of
highways and also managing maintenance and define different new scopes. This organization
is providing better help to the highway facilities and also attached with roads and highways in
this country. This agency is running under the government concern but not attaching with the
profit oriented structure. This organization is having wider scopes to promote better help tot
eh community and make better organizational growth. These organization are getting
financed and monitored under the government. This organization is operating all over the UK
and operating to ensure better transportation and bundling new high ways (Dugdale, 2010)
Private sector organization (Size and Scopes):
There are different private sector organization that need to be concerned and also need to set
better strategies of defining size and scopes. Private sector organization can be segmented as
sole traders, partnership business, large business, MNC, trade unions, trade associations. Sole
trader’s shows that business is running with single owner.
Sole trader’s shows self-employed business that is running the business form single owner
and also can employee’s staffs for the business. Sole traders are getting all the revenues after
paying tax margin. All the data are keep private and using by own purpose. All the
responsibilities are also getting border to the single owner. It is also bit tough to an age

financial aspects of the business because fund management is become tougher for the sole
trader. Business also can be run as partnership business. It shows more than one owner and
investor does the business is having. Decision making coming from collaboration of all the
partners of the business. It also helps to make better problem solving structure that entries
better judgment of decision and adapting effective collaboration and decision to reach further
growth of the business. Limited business shows business keep separate all the investment
margin form the rise and business taking the overall liabilities. They need to pay the
corporate tax and profit distributes to all the shareholders in the business. Limited business
also can be segmented as public and private limited business. Public limited business can sell
their shares in the stock exchanges. Private limited business cannot buy or sell the shares
margin in stock exchange (Homel, 2010).
Business can be segmented under small, medium and large organization. Small organization
are having less than 200 employees, medium organization are having 500 to 999 employees
and large organization are having more than 1000 employees. Most of the business are
running under small and medium size organization. It is important to check the features of
these business tools mall business are mostly covering the local and national demand of the
target customers. Medium size business mostly having their some market extension project
and having own manufacturing house. Large organization are having their international
presence. MNC business helps to ensure strategic growth in the business to reach effective
progress of the business.
Analyse how the structure, size, and scope of
different organisations link to the business
objectives and product and services offered by
the organisations.
Transco is one of the biggest business under the utility industry of the UK. This business is
also making better structure and gaining further power supply for the general people in the
UK. This organization is promoting better electricity supplies with the large size and scoops
of this business. British Highways is also reputed public sector organization that is working
for developing transportation services and ensuring better road and safety.
M&S is one of the most sustained practiced retail chain business. This business is align their
global operation too. This business is having rote and 255 stores and there are more than
78000 employs are working under this business. This business is having strong presence in
the UK market as they are having their market share margin is about 3.6%. This business is
running with project A that is more prominent sustainable business forecasting. They are
considering the environment and social issue to sets their strategies and approaches that helps
this business to make sustained progress (Patrick, 2019).
This business is having objectives to reach sustainable profit margin where they are
connected with people with their large and wee margin of products and services. They are
also having diversified product, equality practices in management to show their ethical and
positive practices to make strong interaction with large community.
Business also can be segmented under international, multinational, global and transnational
companies. International companies shows the business are doing imports and exports and

they are not doing investment to the outside of their home countries. MNC business shows
business is having presence in the different countries as facilitates in multiple countries.
Global business shows the business sis having presence in different locations of multiple
countries. This business need to be concerned over the culture and different external issue
soft the targeted country to make effective progress of the business. Transitional counters
shoes that business are not counting any specific country for their national home and margin
global presence too.
Explain the relationship between different
organisational functions and how they link to
organisational objectives and structure.
Transco is one of the British Gas supplier business that shaving main goal to provide gas
services to the UK and this business is having 60% of market share in the UK. This business
is running with formal structure at following by the employees. There are different functions
does this business is having.
Marketing is one of the key function in this business. This function helps to promote hire
different products and services and also make better inclusion of target customers by
promoting their sustained practices. This department is finding the new opportunities does the
market is having. It also helps to determine over the competences and also defines the lacking
does the business is having. It helps to set better strategy to use further opportunity
enhancement strategy to reach positive growth of the business (Pollack, 2015).
The functional division in this organization is capable to guarantee the ideal utilization of the
assets and furthermore outlines the upper hand for any organization. The interest for
Transom's items has been multiplied throughout the past years. The organization needs to
keep 7 centres for consistent gas supply across the UK. The interest and estimates are
required to have been ceaselessly coordinated. The organization is effective enough in doing
that and they have made nonstop improvement in this portion fully backed up by their money
and human resources division.
It is important for the business to be concerned over their financial function. This business
needs large fund because there are covering 60% of market share. Also, source analysis,
budgeting, setting up the gas price issue salsa attaching with their financial functions. They
are also utilizing function to identify their new opportunities to growth market share and also
connected with investments options, staff read policy, party payment etc. (Stranks, 2010)
It is important for this business to make better linkage between all their functions to set
strategic growth. Finance function helps to disburse the right amount of fund for marketing
and HRM function. It helps to ensure right availability of resources to implement the plan
from other departments. Marketing function relates business strengths and weaknesses that
also helps them to identify the approaches that ensures strategic growth of the business.

Analyse the interrelationships between
organisational functions and the impact that can
have upon organisational structure.
Organization can have different types of structure that is also connected to the size, scopes
and functions of the business. Structure is directly relates with the factors that business are
obtaining.
Functional structure of the business are the most common structure that many of the business
are u sing. It shows business organized their employees under the certain function and
activities. Human resource, marketing, finance, supply chain are the function where employs
are segmented under these function and collaborate with the top management of each
function to make decision and running to reach the common shared goals.
Functional structure of the business helps to grouping employees under the certain function
that is having specialization of these. Mostly, large organization are using this that helps them
to segment group of employees into different fictions and collaborate with each other to reach
the goal. It helps to increase operational speed in the business. It also helps to make better
clarity in operation too (Weaatherley, 2014).
Divisional structure is more effective one that shows each division can work as independent
unit. Business who are having wide and diverse range of product and services are easing this
structure. It helps to get enough freedom in each divisions. It also helps divisional mangers to
get expertise in the area. It also increase better optional control to reach goals and objectives
of the business. Divisional structure also can be categorized under the specific geographic
locations and diversification too. It helps to make better monitoring of performance of their
employees and ensure strategic growth of the business.

Use contemporary examples to demonstrate both
the positive and negative influence/impact the
macro environment has on business operations
Determine the internal strengths and
weaknesses of specific businesses and their
interrelationship with external macro factors.

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