Report on Types, Size, and Scope of Organisations - HND Business L4

This report provides a comprehensive overview of different types of organisations, including private, public, and voluntary sectors, and examines their sizes and scopes within the business environment. It uses examples such as Unilever, BBC, and Oxfam to illustrate these concepts. The report also touches on the importance of stakeholder analysis and the various factors impacting a business, such as PESTLE analysis and internal organisational structures. It references academic works to support its analysis and offers insights relevant to HND Business Level 4 students. Desklib provides a platform to access this and many other solved assignments.

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Scope, Purpose and Types of Organisation

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Purposes of different types of organisations.
• Size and Scope of different types of organisations.
• References

Introduction
•Business: Exchange of goods and service in
return of money.
•Business Environment: Sum of all the external and internal
factors that impacts a business.
•PESTLE analysis can be done to identify the external
factors.
•Employees, policies and organisational
structure can be considered as internal factors.

Purposes of different types of
organisations.
Private:-
•Run by private individuals;
•Great significance in the economy;
•Businesses are sole traders, partnerships and franchisee;
•Aim: To earn profit, Increase sales;
•Financed from the personal savings, bank loans and
government subsidies;
•Example: Unilever.

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Public:-
•Controlled by the government;
•Financed from the taxes;
•Aim: To deliver essential public services and to use
resource properly;
•Related to health care, infrastructure and universities;
•Example: BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).

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Voluntary:-
•Third sector of the economy;
•Owned by any single individual or a group of people;
•Aim of these is to assist specific type of people;
•Fundraising, grants and donations.

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• NGO's, charitable trusts and different social groups;
• Does not believe in sharing profit to the owners of that
trust;
• They develop local communities and believes in creating
a society which is free from any suffering;
• Example: Oxfam.

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Partnerships: There are lots of business prevailing in the
market which is run and owned by the more than two people
or partnerships. Both exercise control over the functions and
operations of the firm in some or other way. The sharing of
the ownership can be wither equal or any one party may
have more share in comparison to other.

Size and Scope of different types of
organisations.
Overview of Unilever:
•Transnational private consumer goods company;
•Food, beverages and personal care products;
•190 countries with 400 brands;
•169,000 employees;
•Products from affordable to luxurious goods
•Liptons, Knorr, Dove, Axe and Omo.

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• Vision: To grow business by keeping environment in the
priority and creating social impact.
• By the use of stakeholder analysis procedure they can
identify the important people who holds a significance in
the growth of Unilever.

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• By the use of stakeholder analysis procedure they can
identify the important people who holds a significance in
the growth of Unilever.

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Overview of BBC:
•British public service broadcaster;
•Employed almost 21,000 people;
•Mission: To inform, educate and entertain;
•Objective: Make unique world class content;
To target young audience;
All the content should be audience focused.

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Overview of Oxfam:-
•Charitable Organisation
•Focuses on eradicating poverty
•Mission: To work with local organisations and people who
are living in poverty hit areas.
•Emphasis on disaster relief, advocacy and policy research.
•Raise funds through three different sources i.e., shops,
government bodies and private donors;

References
• Ward, P.T and et. al., 1995. Business environment, operations
strategy, and performance: an empirical study of Singapore
manufacturers. Journal of operations management. 13(2). pp.99-115.
• Kaufmann, D and et. al., 2000. Measuring governance, corruption,
and state capture: How firms and bureaucrats shape the business
environment in transition economies.
• Yew Wong, K and Aspinwall, E., 2004. Characterizing knowledge
management in the small business environment. Journal of
Knowledge management. 8(3). pp.44-61.

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