HND Business Environment Analysis: BT Group Plc - Semester 2 Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of BT Group's business environment. It begins with an introduction to business environments, followed by an examination of BT Group's organizational structure, including functional and divisional structures, and an organizational chart. The report then delves into the relationship between organizational functions and objectives, highlighting how BT Group aligns its structure to achieve its goals. A significant portion of the report focuses on the impact of the macro environment, utilizing PESTLE analysis to assess political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors affecting BT Group's operations. Furthermore, the report conducts internal and external analyses, identifying the company's strengths and weaknesses, and applies a SWOT analysis to evaluate the interrelationships with external macro factors. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, and references are provided to support the analysis.

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 .........................................................................................................................................................3
(Covered in PPT)......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................................3
P3 Relationship between organizational function and objectives ..........................................................3
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................................5
P4 Impact of macro effect on organization’s business operations ..........................................................5
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................................8
P5 Internal and external analysis of BT to identify strength and weakness.............................................8
P6 Apply SWOT analysis in BT groups and their interrelationships with external macro factors.............9
CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
A business contain both internal and external factor of an organization and how these
factors impact functioning of organization in business market place. Elements that are included
in business environment are consumers, competitors, geographical market place, employees,
organizational culture, decision making and role of managers. An organization can grow
effectively by making efficient planning and challenges in environment. BT Group Plc. formerly
known as British telecom was founded in 1969 (Borio, 2014). It is a multinational
telecommunication company in UK dealing with products like broadband services, television
subscriptions mobiles, broadband, fixed line broadband. The company has increased their roots
in across 180 countries and planning to penetrate market in other geographical areas. This
assessment will discuss different types of organization and their purposes, ways through which
company is focusing on different organizational function and their links to objectives and at the
end negative and positive impact macro environment in business activities, they can be analyzed
by different analytical tools like PESTLE and SWOT for better evaluation and learning .
TASK 1
(Covered in PPT)