Organizational Structures and Scope: A Business Environment Analysis

This report identifies the purposes, sizes, and scopes of different types of organizations, including public, private, and voluntary organizations. It provides examples such as Sainsbury PLC, National Health Service (NHS), and Oxfam, detailing their operational scales and objectives. Sainsbury PLC, a private retail chain, aims to be a top discounted market in the UK with a large employee base and substantial revenue. The NHS, a public health aid system, focuses on improving public health and creating employment. Oxfam, a voluntary organization, works to eradicate poverty and provide essential resources worldwide. The report references academic works on industrial organization, corporate climate change targets, and the value of attributes in UK supermarkets, providing a comprehensive overview of organizational structures and their impact on the business environment. Desklib offers more resources for students.

Business and Business
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P1. Identification of purposes of different types of organizations
Public Organizations
 These organizations are
owned and operated
under the surveillance of
government.
 These companies are
funded by government
and are exclusively or
partially under control
of government.

Private Organizations
 These companies are owned by a group of partners or
solely by a person whose main motive is to earn
profit and increase its shareholder’s wealth in the
long run.
 These companies are legally formed under the laws
and their shares are not listed publicly. Sainsbury, a
chain of retail stores is a private company owned by
John James Sainsbury.
 Company has more than 700 convenience shops and
600 stores of supermarkets acquiring a total space of
22,819,000 square feet.

Voluntary Organizations
 These community segments
are evolved to fulfil a
certain social purpose with
no profit motive.
 These organizations are
formed by either group of
people or individuals whose
aim is to serve the society
and do not require any legal
formalities to start its
operations.

P2. Size and scope of different types of
organizations
Every organization has a target to operate so as to fulfil
its goals. The goals define the size and scope of
operations that business will fulfil. Every company has
certain emphasizes on its operations whether it is
publicly owned or private enterprise or a charitable
trust. The companies decides its size and scope based
on the operations it performs.

Sainsbury PLC:
 The size and scope of any business is
governed by its goals and objectives.
 If the business firm has a big target, it
needs to have a huge investment in
size so as to meet objective.
 Company has around 2 lakhs of
employees serving the organization.
 The founder John James Sainsbury has
a vision of making the company
amongst top discounted market
operating in UK Company has earned
£26.224 billion revenue in the year
2017 and has a total of £642 million
operating income at the end of year
2017

National Health care System:
 NHS or National Health Service is a
public health aid system of the United
Kingdom. It is a service system based
in England whose main focus is to
create greater well-being of the people
irrespective of their wealth.
 The children and youth form the most
vulnerable group of society whose
health is main concern for the country.
 The NHS being the only system of
health aid needs to build a strong
community of active staff who
provides aid as and when needed to
any place or in any situation.
 The main motive of NHS is to
improve the health of the general
public in UK. The NHS is responsible
for creating employment for a large
group of people all over UK.

Oxfam:
 The aim of this organization is to render charity to
the sectors which are poverty trodden and helps to
remove powerlessness through various programs and
services.
 Their focus is to develop the society by providing
education, health ans safety, eradication of poverty
etc.
 Headquarters in England the organization provides
services to worldwide people helping and resolving
their problems with a mission of providing livelihood
and resources essential for living a good life.

REFERENCES
Book and Journals
Carlton, D. W. and Perloff, J. M., 2015. Modern industrial organization. Pearson
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Chandler, A. D., Hikino, T. and Chandler, A. D., 2009. Scale and scope: The dynamics
of industrial capitalism. Harvard University Press.
Daft, R.L., Murphy, J. and Willmott, H., 2010. Organization theory and design.
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Gouldson, A. and Sullivan, R., 2013. Long-term corporate climate change targets:
What could they deliver?. Environmental science & policy. 27. pp.1-10.
Grundvåg, S. G., Larsen, T. A. and Young, J. A., 2013. The value of line-caught and
other attributes: An exploration of price premiums for chilled fish in UK
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