Report: Business and Business Environment, Organizational Structure

This report examines the business and its environment, focusing on different types of organizations including sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations, and their structures within the private, public, and voluntary sectors. It explores the relationship between organizational functions such as marketing, human resources, and production, and how they contribute to achieving business objectives. The report also investigates the impact of organizational structure on business goals, considering factors such as stakeholder influence and the adaptation to changes. It concludes that both macro and internal factors significantly influence business activities and decision-making, highlighting the varied objectives of organizations based on their scope and size, whether to generate profit or serve a specific purpose. The report references academic sources to support its findings.

Business and business environment

TABLE OF CONTENT
 IntroductionIntroduction
 Different type and purpose of organisation
 Size and scope of different types of organisation
 Relationship between different organisational functions and its objectives and
structure
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 The process of making money by selling goods
and services is called and known as business.
 Business environment refers all the factors that
influence business activities like social factors,
strength, weaknesses etc.
 Arcadia is the 2nd largest clothing retailer
private limited company in United Kingdom.
 It has more than 2000 outlets in shopping centre.

Different type and purpose of
organisation.
 An organisation consist of group of people with same purpose and try to achieve
that purpose.
 There are mainly three types of organisation that are sole proprietorship,
partnership and corporation that may be public private and voluntary organisation.
 Public business
 Private business
 Voluntary business

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 Legal structure and background of organisations
 Private sector firm
 Public sector firm
 Voluntary sector firm

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 Difference between profit, non-government and non-profit organisation
 Profit organisation is the sources of revenue by selling goods and services
to peoples and to customers.
 Non-government organisation is also called the NGO sector firm.
 Non-profit organisation is uses the extra fund and capital for the purpose
of the organisation, but it is divided between shareholders and owners of
organisation.

Size and scope of different types of
organisation.
 Every organisation and business have their scope,
size and purpose.
 Small business
 Medium-sized
 Large sized
 Sole proprietorship
 Partnership firm

Relationship between different
organisational functions and its
objectives and structure.
There are various functions that every organisation have to play such as: marketing,
production, human resource, sales, research etc. There is a link between all the
organisational functions and for that they have to work together in order to
achieve organisational goals.
 Sales and marketing
 HR and finance
 Technology and production department

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Organisational structure of voluntary sector firm
 There are total 161,266 voluntary organisation in which 82,391 are micro,
52,815 are small, 21,257 are medium and 4270 are large organisation.
Organisational structure of private sectors firm
 In private sector company they generally have various stakeholders such as:
directors, officers, share holders and managers that help and guide company in
order to fulfilment of business objectives.

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 Impact on organisation structure and its objectives
 The organisational structure refers the relationship between all the functions of
organisation.
 It can be influenced by all the functions of the organisation as it distributes
responsibilities and adapt changes.

CONCLUSION
 From the above study it has been concluded that macro and internal factors majorly effect
business activities and decision-making process by leaders and managers.
 Different types of organisation according to scope and size have different aim like to earn
money, to serve people.
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References
Potluka, O. and et.al., 2017. Non-profit leadership at local level: Reflections from
Central and Eastern Europe. Local Economy. 32(4). pp.297-315.
Stiglitz, J.E. and Rosengard, J.K., 2015. Economics of the public sector: Fourth
international student edition. WW Norton & Company.