Business Environment: Examining Organisation Types, Size, Scope

This report provides an overview of different types of organisations, focusing on their purposes, size, and scope within the business environment. It categorises organisations into private, public, and voluntary sectors, providing examples such as Tesco, BBC, and Oxfam, respectively. The report details the aims and operational characteristics of each sector, highlighting how private companies like Tesco focus on productivity and profitability, public entities such as the BBC aim to serve public interest, and voluntary organisations like Oxfam are engaged in philanthropic work. It also touches upon the importance of stakeholder management, categorising stakeholders based on their level of influence and information needs. The report references academic sources to support its analysis of organisational behaviour and business strategies.

Business Environment
Various types of organisations and their size and
scope.

Table of Content
Introduction
Purposes of different kinds of organisation.
Size and scope of various kinds of firms.
References

Introduction
Business:
• Exchange of products and services takes place and
these are referred as business;
• Affected by internal and external factors;
• SWOT and PESTLE analysis for evaluating micro
and macro environment.

Purposes of different kinds of organisation.
Private:
● Owners are from common public;
● Bank gives loans and other than this rely on personal
savings;
● Aim: To increase productivity and profitability.
● Tesco will be an ideal example for this.

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Public:-
● Normally government exercise all the powers;
● Through Tax they perform their business activities;
● Aim: To make sure that interest of public are maintained.
● One of the oldest media organisation BBC can be
considered in this.

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Voluntary Sector:
● Are engaged into philanthropic work;
● They are in the form of NGOs, charitable trusts and etc.;
● With donations they do humanitarian work;
● Aim: To maintain social harmony in the society.
● Example: Oxfam.

Size and scope of various kinds of firms.
Brief about Tesco
● Third largest retailer in terms of profit;
● They have got success in opening 6,550 stores;
● Have workforce strength of 470,000 people;
● 50 million people use the products of Tesco.

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KEEP SATISFIED
All the demands and requirements of the
particular individuals are catered as they holds
a key interest in the company.
● Shareholders
● Workers
HANDLE CLOSELY
Only satisfaction at some level.
● Suppliers
● Governing Regime
INSPECT
There are some people on the action of whom
company changes their strategies or products.
Without their interest it will be hard for them
to survive in the market. So they need to make
sure that these people get full information
about the operations.
● Customers
● Investors
GIVE INFORMATION
A little bit of information to them is
enough for them as more will make them
disturb.
● Local Communities

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Overview of BBC:
• Considered as one of the oldest media company;
• Appointed more than 20,000 people to bring out their
services.
• Mission: To inform, educate and entertain;
• Objectives:- To generate more revenues from their
services.
To bring for all groups of people.
Targets to bring world level content.

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Details of Oxfam:-
● Non Profit Organisation;
● Put efforts to remove poverty.
Mission: To engage local groups in their activities;
● To reach almost all the disaster hot areas;
● Funds from different sources such as, Online shops,
government and corporate bodies.

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