Business and Business Environment: Organizational Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the business and its environment, exploring various organizational types, including public, private, and voluntary sectors, along with their legal structures and scopes. It delves into the interrelationships between organizational functions, such as marketing, production, finance, and research, and their links to organizational objectives and structure, using ASDA as a case study. Furthermore, the report utilizes PESTLE and SWOT analyses to evaluate the positive and negative impacts of the macro environment on business operations, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and their interplay with external factors. The analysis covers the size, scope, and range of different organizations like Network Rail and Guide Dogs, offering insights into their operations, objectives, and contributions to their respective sectors. The report aims to provide a detailed understanding of how businesses operate within their environments and the factors that influence their success.

Business and Business Environment
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Task-1.........................................................................................................................................3
LO1: Explain the different type of organizations, including their size and scope.....................3
1.1: Explain different types and purposes of organization, public, private and voluntary
sectors and legal structure (P1)..................................................................................................3
1.2 Explain the size and scope of a range of different types of organizations (P2)...................8
Task 2.......................................................................................................................................12
LO2: demonstrate the interrelationship of the various functions within an organization and
how they link to organization structure....................................................................................12
2.1- Explain the relationship between different organizational function and how they link to
organizational objectives and structure (P3)............................................................................12
Task 3.......................................................................................................................................13
LO3: Use contemporary examples to demonstrate both the positive and negative
influence/impact the macro environment has on business operations.....................................13
3.1- Using PESTLE identify the positive and negative impact the macro environment has
upon the business operations of your chosen organization. You should support your answer
by specific examples from your chosen organization [P4]..................................................13
Task-4...................................................................................................................................17
LO4: Determine the internal strengths and weaknesses of specific businesses and explain
their interrelationship with external macro factors..................................................................17
4.1- Using SWOT or TOWS conduct an internal and external analysis of your chosen
organization to identify its strengths and weaknesses. (P5).................................................17
4.2- explain how strengths and weaknesses interrelate with external macro factors (P6)...18
Conclusion................................................................................................................................21
Reference..................................................................................................................................22
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Introduction
Various types of organizations are performing different types of functions in the market as
per their nature but with the common goal of earning. In this detailed study, the learner will
discuss the different types of the organizations along with the organizational structure of the
organization. Apart from this, the learner will also mention the organizational function of the
particular types of organization.
Task-1
LO1: Explain the different type of organizations, including their size and scope.
1.1: Explain different types and purposes of organization, public, private and voluntary
sectors and legal structure (P1)
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In the corporate business, there are a different type of organization are available:
Public sector: public sector are those type of the organization in which a maximum number
of profit share under the government of the country and in the overall the maximum number
of share are also holed by the government (Marginson, 2015). For every growth the company
only government is responsible for that because every activity of the company is operated and
controlled by the government. The main aim of this type of the organization is to provide
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better facility and services to the people of the country at low cost this type of organization
main objective is not to make a profit, rather make the welfare of the public of the country by
serving various types of services (Lewandowski, 2017). The profit that the organization is
getting from the people is later used in the public services. There is some example of the
public sectors, they are like railways services, road and transport services, electric supply,
public health committee, supply water services, road construction agencies, environmental
organization and highway agency government NGOs, and government educational institution
and so on. In the UK there are many types of public organization present in the UK named as
Network Rail, National Health Services, the UK atomic energy authority, and England
education services. The main aim of the public sector organization is to serve to public of the
UK.
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Private sector organization: Private sectors are that type of organization which are mainly
operated by an individual or a group of individuals. The main objective of this private sector
is to make the profit at a higher level. Generally, the government has no control and not even
the authority over this type of organization, but sometimes through contracts basis
government can work with the private sector organization through the partnership or contract
to get profit and better service to the public (Mazzucato, 2015). The employees or workers in
private sector don’t have the security of the job they can be fired at any instance of time and
some time the workers are working on different contract. The private sector has a huge
benefit in serving better product and proving higher jobs all over the globe.
There is four type of private sector organization, and they are:
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Multinational companies: multinational companies are that kind of companies which deals
with their product in more than one countries. In other words, the investment is made by
companies in two different countries but their product is not dealt in different countries in
multinational companies. In the whole, the multinational company deals with their product
and services in different company and organizations.
International companies: in international companies, the company only deals with its exports
and import services in various countries they don’t invest in other countries but only deliver
their product in other countries.
Global organization: in the global organization the investment of the companies is made in
the world by this type of the organization to benefit the entire globe.
Transitional organization: the main business of this organization is in the different countries
in the entire world, the features of the transitional organization are to contribute differently to
make the worldwide integrated operation.
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Voluntary organization: Voluntary organization works for the welfare of the public of the
country. These organizations don’t want to make a profit with the people they work as a
charity. The voluntary organization through its services wants to help the public of county to
get a better life and have good stander of living (Booth, 2018). Its employees or its manager
do not even use the total income of the organization but its all revenue is used as the welfare
of the country. Few names of this type of organization are cancer research in UK, Welcome
Trust, the British Heart Foundation, Guide Dogs, and British Red Cross society and so on.
Some voluntary organizations are also working as an NGO to serve the public of UK better.
1.2 Explain the size and scope of a range of different types of organizations (P2).
The size and scope of the private organization
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For explaining the range and scope of the private organization have taken a name of the
company as ASDA. It is Retail Company named as ASDA stores limited. This company was
established in 1965. The market of this company was expended during the period of 5 years
after its establishment in the year of 1970 to 1980, and the acquire around 62 supermarket
and other business in its retail line. Apart from the retail business this company also acquires
the business of finance and general merchandise and mobile phone business. In the current
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time, the total number of employees is around 180,000. In the year of 1987, the companies’
slogan is “save money & live better”. For the better service, ASDA stores use EE net this
company also deals with the building and household services. Because of stronghold in the
retail sector and now expanding his business in all other sectors makes the position of the
company better and strong in the global market. This company is also making his revenue
strong in the global market. The scope of the ASDA stores in the future is great, and for the
global market, they are the highest service provider in the retail market. Because of the good
reputation of the ASDA in the UK market, it is its moral duty to serve their customer well.
The objective of this company is to become the best company of retail in the global market
by serving and providing products and services to the society (Stiglitz et al., 2015). Customer
satisfaction is also an important objective and apart from this the satisfaction of the
employees by providing good salary and facility, and making the highest profit in the market
is the key objective of the company.
The size, scope and range for public organization
For the discussion about the range scope and size of the public organization in this project,
Rail Network Infrastructure is one of them. This network rail company is serving its services
in the public sector of UK since 2014. And its work is to monitor all the railways services and
maintenance of all the cross rail services and electrification of rail lines. All the rail
operations like schedule of arrival and departure and railways food and its maintenance are
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take care this organization. The main aim of the company is to deliver better and growth of
the rail services in the entire country for the public and make best for the revenue. The main
objective of this organization is to provide the best service of railways and increase the
revenue of the country. Cross Rail is the last very successful project in the London (Gerrish,
2016). The new project is the Birmingham new street rail project which is recently going to
implement in the railway's department.
The size, scope and range of voluntary organization
To provide the range size and scope of the voluntary organization let us take an example of
Guide dogs organization as this organization is small in size in the comparison of other
organization which are discussed earlier. The Guide Dogs foundation runs with the help of a
donation from many businessmen and other peoples of UK, and various type of organization
also donates this organization. In this organization the dogs were trained by this organization
to help the blind peoples to cross the roads and help the other peoples from different type of
danger. This organization also performs in different shows and help in the better standard of
life to the society (O'Connor et al., 2016). The main objective of this organization is not to
make a profit but serve well to the society and help the different kind of peoples who need
helps.
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Task 2
LO2: demonstrate the interrelationship of the various functions within an organization
and how they link to organization structure.
2.1- Explain the relationship between different organizational function and how they
link to organizational objectives and structure (P3).
The ASDA stores limited organizational structure are as follows, at the top of the company
the CEO of ASDA sits and he looks all the activity of the company, and the function of every
ongoing project the CEO of the company is also responsible for any evil thing happens in the
company or organizations. After that, the whole work of CEO is divided into four parts first
one is the marketing second is the production after that the finance department and last one is
the research teams. For any product the marketing is essential and for that CEO recruits a
sales marketing manager or sales manager to get better marketing scheme for the products.
And under those sales managers, different salesman comes who sales the new product door to
door and promotion of the product is done by them (O'Neill et al 2016). Another team is the
production team which produce the product, for production and the take care of the overall
production of the product CEO appointed a production manager who smartly takes care the
production of the ongoing project and different employees related to the project and if any
conflict is raised between the employees then the production manager must resolve the
conflicts. The most important role of the production manager chooses the correct resources
for the ongoing project for better and quick result for the stockholders and company. And
after completion of the project, a quality analyzing team is created for the checking of the
completed product. Another team is the finance team under which the human resource
managers and it department are created by the administration. The function of the human
resource manager is to get new employees and provide their salary and to check the overall
financial growth of the organization. Another part is the research team which examines the
total growth and loss of the company and the future scopes for the growth of the company.
The IT is the department which resolves all the issues related to production and marketing
department. As the demand of new products is rising day by day and the main role of
research department comes into play to get knowledge of the new product and know what is
the needs of the customers (Shafritz et al., 2015).
The advantage of the organizational structure:
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