Tesco's Business Environment: Organizational Structure and Functions

This report provides an analysis of Tesco's business environment, focusing on its organizational structure and functions. It discusses the different types of organizations, including private, public, and voluntary sectors, highlighting Tesco as a private organization with the primary purpose of maximizing profit and providing customer satisfaction. The report examines the size and scope of various organizations, linking them to their business objectives, particularly within private organizations. It delves into the advantages and disadvantages of organizational functions, such as human resources, and explores the relationships between different functions like research, sales, marketing, and production. Furthermore, the report critically analyzes the complexities of various business structures, including functional, divisional, and matrix structures, referencing academic sources to support its analysis.

Business and business environment
TASK 1 & 2

Introduction
Tesco is the retail company which deals in the groceries,
clothings, electricals and the hardware. The business
environment of this company is good for the employees. The
environment in which the business operates and behave that
shapes the business activities. In the There are many types of
organisations like private, public and the voluntary sectors.
And the purpose of each organisation is different.

1.1 Different types and purposes of organisations
The Tesco company is the private organisation and the purpose
of this organisation is to provide better facilities to its
customers and to maximise the profit. But there are many
types of organisations and the purpose of every organisation
is different.

1.2 Size and scope of different types of organisations
The size of the Tesco company is large. The size
of organisation is different from organisation to
organisation.

1.3 Structure, size and scope of different organisations link to the
business objectives
The size, structure and the scope of the different organisations and they all are linked with the
business.
Private organisations- The main motive is to earn the profit by providing the product and
services. The private sector provides the services and better quality the products according to the
customers need and satisfy the customer needs. From it the company enhances the productivity
and from it the company achieve the objectives.

2.2 Advantages and disadvantages between the organisational functions
In the Tesco company there are many organisational functions and they have some advantages and
the disadvantages.
Human resource- It is the function of the organisation, in the main work of this function is that
recruit and selection of the employees, provides benefits, compensation, giving salary and the
incentives to the employees and proving the training and development to the employees for
improving their skills.

2.1 Relationship between different organisational functions
In the Tesco company there are many organisational
functions and they are related to each other. The basic
functions of the businesses are research, sales,
marketing and the production.

2.3 Critical analysis of the complexities of different types of business
structure
The organisation has the proper structure. And these structures helps in achieving the
organisational goals. There are different types of organisational structureless. In the
functional organisational structure, it works in the small business and each department
are very good and excellent in their fields like human resource department is good in
recruitment and the selection,and good in giving the training to the employees. The
finance department very well know that how to manage the finance. In the divisional
structure, the large companies that operate the wide ranges of business they divide the
work in the smaller groups. Like in Human resource department there are many people
Some for recruitment, some for election and for the training an development. An in sales
and the marketing department, some employees are for the sells, some are for the online
marketing etc. From the division of the work the burden will be reduced. In the matrix
structure, it is the combination of the functional and the divisional organisational
structure. It is used in the large companies. And it is beneficial for the functional
organisational structure and the divisional organisational structure.

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