Business Environment: Examining Organisation Types, Size and Scope

This report provides an overview of the business environment, focusing on different types of organizations including public, private, and voluntary sectors. It examines the purposes, size, and scope of organizations like Marks and Spencer, Peacock, and Ummah Welfare Trust, highlighting their legal structures and objectives. The report references academic sources to support its analysis of how these organizations operate within their respective environments, emphasizing factors such as profitability, customer satisfaction, and social responsibility. Desklib provides students access to similar solved assignments and resources.

Business and Business
Environment

INTRODUCTION
Business is the process of promoting the goods and services in
the market. It conducts as an economic activities and helps
private, public and other sectors of the business. Business
environment includes individuals, groups which may or may
not be maintained by the organisation but they affect the
profitability, performance and growth of the company.

Different types of organisation

P1 Different types and purposes of
organisations
Public sector:
•Public sector organisation are owned by the local, state and
national government.
• Employees in public sector organisation enjoys the profits and
various other appraisal from the government.

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Purpose of Marks and Spencer:
•The main purpose of M & S is to make more profit and benefits
by expanding their business. They also want to satisfy the needs
of the customer by selling different clothing and food products to
them.
Legal structure of Marks and Spencer:
•This organisation has adopted limited partnership legal structure
in which there are more than two partners are involved.

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Private sector:
•Private sector includes the organisation which are owned by the
one or two individuals.
•Private sector organisation are free from government control.

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Purpose of Peacock:
 The main purpose of peacock is to make more profit by
providing its services to the public.
 Its main objective is to provide different services to the
customers and yield better productivity so that it can increase
its revenue.
Legal structure of Peacock:
 Peacock has adopted sole proprietorship legal structure to
achieve its target goals. This structure is adopted by the
company as it has flexibility to management and the
organisation has to pay lower taxes with fewer legal control.

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Voluntary sector:
• Voluntary sector is non governmental organisation and
different other non profitable organisations.
• In this sector organisation runs in partnerships by private and
state sector. Example of voluntary sector is Ummah welfare
trust.

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Purpose of Ummah welfare trust:
The main purpose of this trust is to provide shelter, education,
health to those people whose rights are oppressed. Another
purpose is to implement projects by which victims can be
helped.
Legal structure of Ummah welfare trust:
Ummah welfare trust has adopted Massachusetts trust approach
in which the property is maintained by trustees or shareholders
of the organisation

P2 Size and Scope of a range of different
types of organisations
Scope of M & S
 The scope is to make profits by improving its operating margin.
They have increased their stores to make more revenue.
Size of M & S
 It has 959 stores in UK alone. It is providing its services by
opening more branches in different countries like Russia,
Turkey, India, France, Ireland etc.

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Purpose of Peacock:
 The main purpose of Peacock is to preserve and take care
the people in the situations where justice and truth are
denied.
Size of Peacock:
 Peacock has given employment to more than 6000 people
and has 440 retail stores in United Kingdom.

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Purpose of Ummah welfare trust :
 The main purpose of this trust is to take care human well-being
and their rights. They give first priority to people and then
concern for making money.
Objective of Ummah welfare trust :
 The main objective of Ummah welfare trust is to provide social,
economical and cultural relief and support people by providing
better facilities to them.