Business and Business Environment Analysis Report: Sainsbury PLC

This report offers a comprehensive analysis of Sainsbury PLC's business and its environment. It begins with an introduction to business operations and the significance of internal and external environments. Task 1 presents images and diagrams related to the topic. Task 2 delves into the organizational structure of Sainsbury, examining the relationships between various functional departments like HR, marketing, and finance, while also exploring different organizational structures such as functional, centralized, and matrix structures. Task 3 assesses the impact of macro-environmental factors (political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental) on Sainsbury's operations, providing examples of both positive and negative influences. Finally, Task 4 conducts a SWOT analysis of Sainsbury, identifying its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report concludes with a summary of key findings and references.

Business And Business
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................2
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................15
P3 Relationship between organisation functions..................................................................15
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................17
P4 Impact of macro environment on business operations....................................................17
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................19
P5 Internal and external analysis of organisation.................................................................19
P6 Interrelationship between strength and weaknesses of organisation with macro
environment..........................................................................................................................20
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................21
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................23

INTRODUCTION
Business involves various strategies and activities in order to sell their product and make
profit over them. These are the commercial interaction of different entity working in market
place. Business environment is the reflection of working surrounding and other influencing
factors of external and internal surrounding. Environment constitutes factors that regulate
operations of business entity. The environment of can be classified into two types that is one is
internal and other is external (Al-Debei and Avison, 2010). The company is having micro and
macro environment too depending upon the controllable and uncontrollable measure of various
factors influencing form functioning. Business internal surrounding constitutes of 5 M i.e. Man,
Money, Machinery, Management, Material. While external environment needs analysis of
various aspects like economical, political, legal, environmental, technological etc. in order to
identify strength and weaknesses of venture. Sainsbury plc is an public limited company that is
engaged in making profit in market. Its functionality is largely influenced by internal and
external surrounding of business.
In this particular report various types of organisation are studies along with defining
their legal sector. Scope of private, public and voluntary ventures is analysed with defining
various influencing factors of environment. Strength and weaknesses of organisation helps in
studying various micro environment and its affect on functionality of organisation to wider
extent.
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