Examining Sport Organisations: Structure, Functions and Complexities

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of various sport organisations, including public (UK Sport), private (Admiral Sportswear), and voluntary (Sobell Leisure Centre) sectors. It examines their types, purposes, sizes, scopes, and organisational structures, highlighting the impact of these structures on company objectives. The report also explores the relationships between different organisational functions, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of their interrelationships. Furthermore, it addresses the complexities arising from different organisational structures, such as conflicts, unclear goals, inconsistency, and poor communication. The analysis concludes by emphasising the importance of understanding these complexities for effective management and achievement of organisational goals. Desklib offers a variety of resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to further assist students in their studies.

Business report
Task- 1

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................................3
Different types and purpose of the sport organisational................................................................3
Size and scope of range of different types of organisations..........................................................5
Public company- UK sports .............................................................................................................5
Private company- Admiral sportswear..............................................................................................5
Organisational structure and their impact of company's objectives..............................................6
Relationship between the different organisational functions........................................................7
Advantage and disadvantage of interrelationship between organisational function.....................7
Complexities of different organisations and structures.................................................................8
CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Business is an economic activity which are prevalent in the capitalist economics. In this
the goods and services are exchanged with one another for money. The business environment is
total of all the thongs which effect the organisation and their operations. It include the social,
economic and political attributes in which the business operations is conducted. Organisations
chosen in this report are UK sport as public company, Admiral sportswear as a private
organisation and Sobell leisure centre as the voluntary company. This report will include the
different types and purpose of the organisation, scope and size of the company, structure and
scope of different organisation, relationship between different organisation function and
complexities of various organisation and structure (arcus, 2020).
Main Body
Different types and purpose of the sport organisational
Public sector- Those businesses which are operating within the public sector, they will be
government funded. The main aim of these industry is to provide service to their general public
and they do not want to earn any profit. They provide such types of services so that peoples so that
they can take part in the sports as more people as possible.
Purpose: Break even rather than to make a profit.
Providing facilities at cheaper cost to everyone, who can not afford services within private sector
(Chaithanapat and Rakthin, 2021).
Legal structure
 Central government- In this, the public sectors are controlled by the central government.
These companies funded by the government thorough their treasury collection.
 State government- Only some particular department control over theses sectors and there
is a little bit interference of the central government.
 Local government- These companies are comes under and controlled by municipal
authorities and generate revenue for the local communities.

Private sector- The main aim of these companies is to making profit as much as possible. The
cost of sport accessing in these companies is more than the similar services within the public
companies. De to this, some member can not afford that cost and they take part in such types of
games.
Purpose: To make the profit out of the sport
To make the return on investment for them.
Legal structure
 Sole proprietorship- It is not a legal entity and simply refers to that person who owns
their business and personally responsible for all debts.
 Partnership- It include two or more persons and agree to share all profit and losses in the
business.
There is unincorporated entities and they are personally responsible for all debts or losses which
the business undertake.
Voluntary sector- These sectors are made up of the inclusive and exclusive cubs, which are non-
profit making organisations. These are essentially managed by and for the women and amateur
sportsmen. The majority of the amateur clubs like Sunday league football teams are the voluntary
run.
Purpose- Hand the management of the sports centres to the private sector organisations.
Providing affordable, inclusive and well run opportunities ( Fanidis and Moulos,, 2021).
Legal structures
 Trust- These are set up to manage the money and the property for a clear defined purpose.
 The trustees are personally liable for the contracts entered into on the behalf of trust.
 Unincorporated dissociation- It is ideal for the small groups with the membership and it
is cheap and quick to set up. It has no separate legal existence.
Size and scope of range of different types of organisations
Public company- UK sports
It is the is a nation's trusted high performance experts, teams, powering the great athletes sports
and events to achieve the positive success.

 Background- It work in the partnership to lead the Paralympic and Olympic sports int UK
to the world class success. It also developing the individuals and programs which support
their leading athletes in the area of governance, coaching and talent identification.
 Size- It invested in the athletics and the British sports have 65 Olympic along with around
120 Paralympic medals in London.
 Services- It provide funding for the individuals and advising them about how to maximise
their performance.
 Organisational structure- The structure of UK sport is highly complex and rooted within
the historical development, which have often shaped the development of the sport globally
(He, Qi and Liu, 2021).
 Stockholders- Their stakeholders are players, board members, and partners.
 Mission- Driving and show in the British medal success on world stage.
 Vision- A national inspired by the Olympic and the Paralympic success (Gil, Ruiz and
Vega, 2020).
Private company- Admiral sportswear
 Background- It is an oldest English sportswear brand, which focused on the association
football.
 Size- It have more than 75500 employees around the world and their annual turnover is
estimated $32 billions.
 Service- It provide a wide rang of the football and clothing focused on the football sports
performance.
 Mission- It want to earn more profit by proving good quality products to the players.
 Vision- It wants to become a known company with the reputed brand name across the
world.
 Stockholders- their stakeholders are mainly their employees, players and suppliers.
Voluntary company- Sobell leisure centre
 Background- It is the sports facility which is located in the Islington, London. It provide
the disability and the wheelchair friendly information.
 Size- It provide the facilities more the 260 and operate with the more than 60 hubs of
fitness classes (Holgado, Macchi and Evans, , 2020).

 Service- It provide the fully equipped air conditioned gym and offer a wide range of the
fitness equipments with including machines.
 Mission- To provide and promote the better opportunity for playing to the individuals.
 Vision- To manage and improve the standard of living and also provide the best service in
support industry.
 Stakeholders- Stakeholders of the Sobell leisure centre include the voluntaries, trustees
and other staff members.
Organisational structure and their impact of company's objectives.
Organisational structure is a system which outlines about how their certain activities are
directed to achieve the organisational goals. It also identifies that how an information flows
between different levels of the company.
 Hierarchy organisational structure- In this structure, the workers are assigned or
grouped a supervisor. They are grouped together by their function and roles and types of
the product and services they provide. There are multiple levels with highest level of the
leadership at the top, they direct the employees which are below them.
 Divisional structure- in this, the organisation divided on the basis of specific service,
product and geographies. They have control over their own resources and essentially
operating the organisation. This structure is good and work well for the large
organisations. Each division has their own department, executive leadership and resources.
 Functional structure- It is divided into the groups by their roles and responsibilities.
There are different types of departments likes, finance department, marketing department
and sales department. It is beneficial, because they can trust their employee's skills and
capabilities. Each department is managed independently.
Admiral sportswear has the hierarchy organisational structure, it impact their objective by
restricting innovation in their services and limiting the collaboration. This structure create a
bureaucracy and that must be managed to achieve their goals. Sobell leisure centres has the
functional structure as it create barriers and limit the employee's communication. They focus on
singl e area of work and provide specialisation in their department. Thus, these structure impact
the organisational goal. Hierarchy organisational structure, has impacts on the Admiral sportswear
company as a result it affect their employee's performance and provide opportunities to the

workers to specialise and the develop expertise in their work field. And functional structure ,
disconnect their employees from the top level management which has negative impact on the
organisation. (Li, and et. al., 2020).
Relationship between the different organisational functions
The relationship between different organisational functional is very crucial for the success of any
organisation. The relationship between various functions must be managed very carefully in order
to achieve the productivity and profitability (Mair,2020).
 HRM and marketing- They both have the similar objectives to achieve the organisational
goal. The HR is accountable for the well trained and skilled workforce, whereas marketing
is responsible for branding and communicating to the consumers about their product
( Pavoni, 2021).
 Finance and production- The production department require the raw material, labours
and machinery for the monetary expenditure . So basically it is also a function of finance
because , the finance include making budget for the production of products and services. It
allocate fund toward the other expense.
 Sales an information technology- These two function are related to each other, because
the technology provide instant access to the salespersons related to the products and other
tools to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sales pitches. Many sales
organisation are embracing the new technologies to drive their productivity and
profitability.
Advantage and disadvantage of interrelationship between organisational function
The interrelationship between different function of the organisation have some benefits as
well as limitations, which are given below;
Advantages
 The inter relationship between different functions within the organisation help sin
assistance any business to maintain their cooperation.
 It is helpful in increasing their effectiveness within the organisation in order to achieve
their common goals (Price and et. al., 2020).

 It is also increase the profit level, because each individual or workers of the various
departments share their essential information.
 It increase the efficiency by working together and also increase the productivity with a
better outcome.
Disadvantage
 It increase the competition among the different functional department in the organisation.
 It could be difficult to world with each other and the cooperation is compromised.
 Useless efforts by targeting the wrong customers would be a serious and costly mistake.
 Every employees of the organisation has knowledge and information about other branch so
they can use it to harm that branch and share the information for their personal benefits.
 The operational management depends on the various components because of working
together to accomplish the common goals (Zhang, ., 2021).
Complexities of different organisations and structures
In this, there is multiple function and structures are involved with each other. The multiple
organisational structure such as hierarchy, divisional, functional and other structure create various
complexities within the organisation.
 Conflicts- Each department or structure have different mentality and it can create the
conflicts among them. This tend towards the competitive spirit and they feel that their
work is more important than other.
 Unclear goals- When their are multiple structure with their different goals, then the
organisation lacks a cohesive direction. To minimize this problem each department should
align with its individual goal ( Yadav and et. al., 2020).
 Inconsistency- When all department within the organisation start working independently,
they it may result as inconsistency. The organisational policies may not be enforced and it
create confusion. It can run the company into problems.
 Poor communication- There are multiple function and structure within the organisation,
which lead to the poor communication. Due to the inflexible structure can impede the work
force from to accomplish their desired result.
So, there are several numbers of complexities which has adverse impact on the Admiral
sportswear as it include the various resources and functions. It impact their working operation. If

an organisational structure size or system is very large than the company is said to be a complex
because of so many functions and their dependency work system. Multiple number of the Admiral
sportswear's structure like subsidiary, divisional and joint ventures made an enterprise very
complex.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that there are three types of organisation which are
classified on the basis of private sector, public sector and the voluntary sector. They work with the
purpose of profit and to provide services to individual to satisfy them or make enable them to take
the benefits of free services or at low cost. They have different size, background, mission and
visions. They provide different services with different aim. They also have different organisational
structures. They are come under the different legal structure with different regulations. They
perform various types of functions within the organisation. There is an interrelationship between
different function of the organisation. Which is helpful for their growth and to maximize the
profit. But, they also have some advantages of working together. Due to the different
organisational structure and function a business have to face various complexities. To overcome
from these complexities, a business should adopt some strategies to run the organisation in an
efficient way to accomplish their growth.

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