Organisation Types, Functions, and Impact of Business Environment

This report analyses different types of organisations, including private (JD Sports), public (UK Athletics), and voluntary (Amateur Sports Clubs), focusing on their purposes, legal structures, sizes, and scopes. It explains the relationship between various organisational functions like HR, finance, marketing, and R&D, and how they link to organisational objectives and structures. The report also touches upon the impact of the business environment on these organisations, covering aspects like stakeholders, industry trends, and technological developments. Different organisational structures such as functional, divisional, matrix, and flat are discussed in relation to the case study organisations. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and resources for students.

Business and the
Business Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
P1 Describe about dissimilar kinds of organisations, their purposes such as private, public,
legal structures and voluntary sectors..........................................................................................4
P2: Size, Mission, Vision, Objective and Scope of incompatible organisations.........................5
P3 P3 Explain about the relationship between dissimilar functions of organisation and in
which manner they link to organisational objectives and structure ...........................................6
Conclusion....................................................................................................................................
8
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Business environment refers to the factors which affect the operations of company that
includes competitors, customers, industry trends, stakeholders, industry trends, social factors and
technological developments as well. In the present report, three companies are taken into
consideration from sports industry which are JD Sports, UK Athletics and Amateur clubs. JD
Sports is basically a retail company from British context that is headquartered in Bury, Great
Manchester, England and it has shops in various countries and continents such as Europe, United
Kingdom, Asia, United States, Australia, New Zealand as well (Asongu and Odhiambo., 2019).
UK Athletics is responsible for overseeing the governance of athletic events in UK and act as
governing body for the sports of athletics in United Kingdom country. Amateur sports club
where participants engage largely or entirely without remuneration. The present report will cover
discussion about different types of organisation and about the size and scope of different types of
organisation. In addition to this, the report will cover analysis about relationship between
different organisational functions and also about positive and negative impacts the macro
environment has on business operations. Moreover, the report will cover analysis about internal
and external analysis of particular organisation and also about interrelation of strengths and
weaknesses with external macro factors.
Part 1
P1 Describe about dissimilar kinds of organisations, their purposes such as private, public,
legal structures and voluntary sectors
Public organisation: Public sector basically consist of government and all publicly controlled
funded agencies that delivers public programs, goods and services as well. Their main
objective is to remove poverty, attain the self-reliance, reduction in income inequalities,
removal of regional imbalances as well.
UK Athletics(Public): UK Athletics is basically focused towards UK country and act as
governing body for sports of athletics. UK athletics is mainly responsible for governance of
athletics events overseeing in that country along with athletes, their athletics officials and
development as well.

Purpose: The main purpose of UK Athletics is to give motivation to all kinds of athletes
and runners according to their backgrounds and abilities in order to fulfil their potential and
love for the sports as well.
Legal Structure: UK athletics basically limited by guarantee and structured as non-profit
company(Eniola and Entebang., 2015). They have four member organisations and they are
from the constituent countries of United Kingdom: Scottish athletics, England athletics,
Northern Ireland Athletics and Welsh athletics. UK Athletics covered under the structure of
corporations.
Private Organisation: Private organisation refers to person, partnership, agency and corporation
that is not operated through public body or by profits. These are the organisations which are
not operated from government and also include those businesses which have been run for
profit purpose. The focus of private sector organisation is to earn more money and recruit
more number of employees as compared to the public sector.
JD Sports(Private): JD Sports is a company which was established in the year of 1983 through
John Wardle and Dvid Makin. It is the company which has been established as the famous
UK retailer specialist of casual, sports wear and fashionable brand (Geiger., 2017). The
company has initiate its journey from a single shop and now has expanded itself in the entire
UK country. It has opened a total of fifty-six stores, by the year of 1996.
Purpose: The company's purpose is to deliver sustainable earnings growth of long term in order
to enhance total shareholder returns by dividends and share price performance. It has been
done through while retaining their financial capability to invest in the sustainability of their
propositions and growth.
Legal Structure: The legal structure of JD Sports basically comes under the category of
limited liability company. In the year of 2005, from their founder, John Wardle and David
Makin pentland group basically acquired 45% of JD Sports fashion plc. It has 2500 retail
outlets on the worldwide basis and now Pentland group is the majority owner of JD sports.
Voluntary Organisation: These groups basically enter into an agreement and it is a kind of
union or voluntary group. They act usually as volunteers to form a body or to accomplish a
purpose into positive manner. The aim of voluntary organisation is to fulfil their mission and
work towards greater good in certain specific way.

Amateur Sports Club: This sports club was introduced in the year of 2002 by labour
government to support in terms of grass root sport. It is basically recognised as the
importance of sports in the community by allowing local amateur sports club to register with
HM revenue and customs as sports club rather than a business for tax and rates purposes.
Purpose: The main purpose of amateur sports club is to provide facilities for an eligible
sport and to encourage participation in a particular sport.
Legal Structure: Amateur sports club recognised as an unincorporated association which
bound by common rules (Jerman and et.al., 2019). When incorporated that makes the club a
separate legal entity which means that club members are not basically responsible for its
debts.
P2 Size and Scope of incompatible organizations
There are different types of organizations in this business world and it majorly covers from
three different sectors which are private, public and voluntary organizations. Private
organization have different size according to their requirement as compared to public and
voluntary organizations. The scope of private organizations. They basically aim for profit
maximization and sales as well. Public organization only embraces for activities of
government and all the actions are taken for country's advancement and development. The
scope of voluntary organization to increase the variety of organizations and groups, ranging
in scale, organizational structure.

Size and scope of JD sports
It is a British fashion sport company which deals in business of retail sports material. The
business operation of the company is spread in many nations such as United Kingdom,
Europe, United states, New Zealand and Australia.
There are number of stores of company are running in these countries which provided huge
customer base and revenue generation. In the year 1983 company has opened their first ever
store in Manchester and the stores of the company are increases day by day and currently the
organisation operates most of the market share with their large number of stores in the many
countries of the world. The size of the organisation are increases day by the day due to the
effective strategies of the company.
The vision of JD sports is very far because the management of the organisation believes in
strategic alliance with other brands and company to expand their business in many countries.
The management of JD sports has made alliance many reputed brand of the world such as
Puma, Nike, Adidas and many more (Kankaanranta and et.al., 2015). These alliances
express the expansion vision of the organisation.
Size and scope of UK Athletics
UK Athletics is a governing body of the athletics in the United Kingdom, all the activities
related to the athletes are controlled by this authority. It is a non-profit organisation which
has objective to serve the country and push the sports in the country at different level. This

organisation is based on United Kingdom so the branches of these are spread within the
country and the members of this company are the representatives of the government.
The scope of this organisation is limited to the jurisdiction of company. All the events related to
the training, development and competition are organised by this company. The main
objective of this organisation is related to the promotion of sports activities in the country.
There are also many illegal activities are done in sports and this organisation protect the
game from this malfunction.
Size and scope of Amateur clubs
It is sports club which is developed by the labor government with an aim to encourage the
sport in the country. There is a fixed and systematic framework are developed by this club
under which the new and emerging athletes are providing to enhance their sporting
activities. This is possible due to the management and organizing of various sports events in
the country (Machmud and Sidharta., 2016). This organisation also perform an activity to
search the hidden talent from the country and provide them platform for their success.
P3 Explain about the relationship between dissimilar functions of organisation and in
which manner they link to organisational objectives and structure
Organizational structure can be stated as the structure of hierarchy which consists of all the
management, supervisory and subordinate level members of the company to run a chain of
communication among various departments in rhythmic manner.

Functional: Under this form of structure small group of people are formed according to their
functions, skills and responsibilities who are supervised and managed under a single
superior (Niedermeier and et.al., 2016). There lies centralisation of power in one hand
where one person has the authority whereas rest of the people works under control of that
person. There is a rigidity of this form of framework in an organisation where all the people
have to report under a single head. This kind of structure is followed by the amateur sports
club.
Divisional: This type of structure supports division of people in various departments according
to their specialisation and knowledge of work. For each department, one head is appointed
under whom subordinates are kept. This form of hierarchy division the flow of authority and
responsibility is flows upward to downward which means that a person at top will have
highest responsibility and authority. This type of structure is followed by the UK Athletics.
Matrix: It is a mixture of functional along-with divisional structure in which flow of information
is not restricted to superior subordinate communication and flows freely. In this form of
structure, the employees are headed by many leaders that may create chaos in flow of
information and smooth working of employees. This kind of structure is followed by the JD
Sports.
Flat: Small business entities mainly applies this form of structure which follows a single strand
of horizontal chain for the flow of command and reactions (Singh and et. al., 2020). The
superiors and subordinates are the similar in authority and responsibility.
JD Sports follows matrix form of structure because the activities of this business are
focused on retail business. The activities which has been conducted in this organisation does not

require particular skills and action plan to be executed in order to gain high sales(JD Sports
Fashion). Every individual hired is working together to attain high sales objective and attracts
more and more customers towards themselves.The functions performed by JD Sports are
interlinked to each other and to management objectives and structures. Their interlinked
connection is elaborated below:
HR and Finance: These functions in an organisation are highly coiled to each other and
affects themselves significantly. Within an organisation human resource activities can be
conducted into effective manner when there is proper support from finance department. Under
JD Sports they have managed the activities of human resource into result oriented manner and in
order to provide remuneration to the employees it is necessary that they ensure that they have
enough fund for this purpose.
Marketing and R&D: Marketing becomes effective when research and development
strategies and techniques have been applied into effective manner. (Pearson and et.al., 2015).
Research and development is the key of doing marketing into effective manner that's why they
are related to each other JD Sports has done marketing through support of social media channels
after studying the market into appropriate manner.
CONCLUSION
The above stated report concludes that business environment plays a very important role in the
context of an organisation’s decision making and future growth and development as well.
Thats why it is necessary for the organisation.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Asongu, S. A. and Odhiambo, N. M., 2019. Challenges of doing business in Africa: a systematic
review. Journal of African Business, 20(2), pp.259-268.
Eniola, A. A. and Entebang, H., 2015. Government policy and performance of small and medium
business management. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and
Social Sciences, 5(2), pp.237-248.
Geiger, I., 2017. A model of negotiation issue–based tactics in business-to-business sales
negotiations. Industrial Marketing Management, 64, pp.91-106.
Jerman and et.al., 2019. The influence of critical factors on business model at a smart factory: A
case study. Business Systems Research: International journal of the Society for
Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy, 10(1), pp.42-52.
Kankaanranta and et.al., 2015. English in multinational companies: Implications for teaching
“English” at an international business school. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca,
4(1), pp.125-148.
Machmud, S. and Sidharta, I., 2016. Entrepreneurial motivation and business performance of
SMEs in the SUCI clothing center, Bandung, Indonesia. DLSU Business & Economics
Review, 25(2), pp.63-78.
Niedermeier and et.al., 2016. The use of social media among business-to-business sales
professionals in China: how social media helps create and solidify guanxi relationships
between sales professionals and customers. Journal of research in interactive
marketing.
Pearson and et.al., 2015. Intangible resources of competitive advantage: Analysis of 49 Asian
airlines across three business models. Journal of Air Transport Management, 47,
pp.179-189.