Comprehensive Report: Vodafone's Global Business Environment Analysis

This report examines Vodafone's global business environment, focusing on key factors such as cost, market environment, and competition, and their impact on global commerce and trade. It analyzes strategic challenges faced by Vodafone in a global context, including international company structure, foreign laws, and currency fluctuations. The report employs PESTLE analysis to evaluate political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors affecting Vodafone, particularly in the UK market. It further assesses the influences of globalization, ethical considerations, and sustainable practices within the organization, and explores various decision-making processes and internationalization routes. The report critically evaluates the opportunities and challenges presented by the global business environment, as well as the strategies Vodafone can adopt to navigate these complexities, offering valuable insights into the company's operations and strategic planning.

Business Environment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY:.................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Different key factor of cost, market environment and competition that drive through
global commerce and trade.........................................................................................................1
M1. Critically analyse the impact of factor of global business environment in terms of benefits
and challenges.............................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2. Explain the complexity of strategic challenges which is faces by organisation when
operating in global context..........................................................................................................4
M2. Analyse the strategic challenges associated with globalisation...........................................5
D1. Critically evaluate about global business environment, including the opportunities and
challenges which faces by organisation......................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P3. Evaluate the influences globalisation in Organisation..........................................................6
P4. Evaluate the influences of ethical and sustainable globalisation of function.......................8
M3 Critically in influences to application to appropriate theories and model relating
organisational structure ..............................................................................................................8
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................10
P5. Different ways of decision making work effectively in global context..............................10
P6. Discuss various route in internationalism of an organisation.............................................11
D2. Critique strategies that can be adopted by organisations operating in a global business
environment. ............................................................................................................................13
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
The term global business environment is can be defines as the environment in different
sovereign countries within factors are determines can be overall external factor which create high
influence of impact in organisation (Aithal, 2017). As main objective is to better create more
scrutinize environment resources where it evaluate valuable information that effective gain
outcomes that enhance valuable improve of capabilities in terms of capabilities.
In this report, the organisation is taken as Vodafone is a British based multinational
telecommunications company. It is registered office venture where Newbury, Berkshire, England
and its global headquarter in London. The Vodafone where owned and operated network in 22
countries with number of employees 93,000 as well as revenue 44.974 billion pounds. By
covering topics in report that allows factor of cost market environment and having competition
that enhance to drive global commerce and trade. To highlight strategies challenges faces by
organisation when operational in global, different influences where organisational to approach
governance leadership structure culture and function (Amankwah-Amoah, 2016). Through
ethical influence and sustainable globalisation where work effectively global context. By various
routes interrelationship an including key barriers.
MAIN BODY:
TASK 1.
P1. Different key factor of cost, market environment and competition that drive through global
commerce and trade.
To describe to having national income which is type of that effectively measure of
national outputs reasons income to get based on that cost incurred of factor production within
combined situation of enhancing market practise market prices. In situation of Vodafone plc to
involves of production given to reflect to produce better cost management where Vodafone plc
can enhance their price for delivering services about towards raw material generates.
 Basic or Sales Cost: It is consider is amount for receivables by produce from the
purchase of unit where measure good and services as output reduce any trait of tax
payable through adding receivables as per production of sales matters that increase
revenue.
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 Market Cost: The price is one of important that scrutinize where product for better
optimise in better sold market, by involving cost for production in form of wages, rent,
interest as well as outcomes for increasing prices profit maximisation as well as further
(Buno, Nadanyiova and Hraskova, 2015). In perspective of Vodafone plc within
provided for better highlight prices of specific product and services.
Macro environment: It is type of business environment that having similar reflect of about
refers forces which effectively implies on business related to neg elate for attaining competitive
advantages towards better long term relationship. For measuring Vodafone plc to attaining
challenging marketing evaluate challenging to retain as many clients to expand for accomplish
required results.
Pestle Analysis: According to this framework it is consider a better way to accommodate
measuring about to explain political to legal perspective that outer range which effectively for
long term relationship for attaining competitive advantages. This also assort to scanning
environment towards for any company at the time of establishing new business in challenging
objectives as future certainty. As in below Vodafone plc is defining in relation of United
Kingdom to mapping opportunities and challenges of objectives achieve in successful.
 Political: It is factor that describe where towards forming of rules and regulation
corporate governance for specific country (Civelek and et. al, 2016). The United
Kingdom is having stable, where Vodafone plc get benefits foreign trade policy,
interrelation between provide immense high outcomes business expand towards
Vodafone plc. Although, there is negative implication where it not allows for Brexit
marketplace.
 Economical: This factor is majorly emphasis about revenue description that major allows
for reflecting that majorly allows for better consists to about to get performance manner
to highlight demand and supply, economic advantages in terms of corporate taxation
along within other specification. Some of other factor that consider as uncertain factor to
which upload as more challenges in context of crises such as downfall, inflation,
recession which allows to create high barriers. In perspective of Vodafone plc, their
Brexit market is one of factor where Vodafone company about not attaining positive
outcomes.
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 Social: According to this factor it mainly determines towards for better approaching
factor that enhancing demographic for getting support where people in order to mapping
age, gender, caste and religion base to ease way for accommodate in business relative
productive. In situation of Vodafone company their product and services are comprises
upon of special aspect that calculate on approach wide range of high attainment of
positive manner of objectives in successful manner.
 Technological: To get defines about considered innovation within research and
development for uplifting for all scrutinizing refers to pursue for technology. As benefit
of United kingdom is having more scope of high productive where machinery to
improvise increase mobility where company like Vodafone they are ten to reflecting in
terms of getting better mobility of services of technology in positive outcomes in manner
for attaining goals in effective manner.
 Environment: As per this factor is emphasise for influence rules and regulation that
enhance to create situation of United Kingdom where they tend to indicating society
development management where it carries about creates implies of recorded for better
accomplishment where they effectively attain social responsibility where it helps to gain
business goodwill awareness as Vodafone plc could optimise by approaching better way
to contributing positive challenges.
 Legal: This is having towards better factor by measuring considered where employment
laws that effective for implementing polices approach valuable outcomes through
following legal perspective regulation that helps to business commence as per guidelines.
In perspective of United Kingdom where business related approach for improved implies
employment laws, national minimum wages that helps to compliance oriented to
scrutinize positive outcomes (Deasy and et. Al, 2016).
Evaluation:
In above business external factor that emphasis about Pestle analysis which creates an
background towards attaining opportunities in order to investments, more supply and demand of
market as well as product etc. But due to some implication like Brexit Market in which
Vodafone faces more challenges in political, legal and economical factors where it allows
policies and other economical aspect like recession. There are some drivers which highlight on
above Vodafone situation perspective. The factors are Social, technological and environment that
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helps to generates more business opportunities. For negative implication political and
Economical factors are driven through market opportunities balanced.
M1. Critically analyse the impact of factor of global business environment in terms of benefits
and challenges.
As per above analysation of external global business environment where it creates more
information generates which having impact on business. For Vodafone plc, Pestle analysation
helps to indicates about current challenges like political, economical and legal factors are
policies, laws and recession might influence towards their growth. Positive benefits support like
Technological, social and Environment for generating positive outcomes that increase company
growth.
TASK 2.
P2. Explain the complexity of strategic challenges which is faces by organisation when operating
in global context.
The purpose of measuring about ethical base environment through which it mainly
promotes form of challenges that contain high objective of accompanied where together is
having reduces assorting of resources as well as pandemic situation arises of companies that
commence for following rules and regulation that effectively creates complication of having
poverty better stability of political stability.
There is some of point through which strategic challenges where it effectively creates
huge impact that attain by Vodafone plc business environment. International Company structure: In overall business organisation there is that
effectively business management but in terms of Vodafone plc is one of most influence
company in international level where it comprising to approaching high coordinate
which is having high sustainability for getting approach all outcomes by considering
designed (Doh, Luthans and Slocum, 2016). As per perspective of Vodafone plc where
wide range of opportunities gets better sustainability for all major targeting effective
base of marketing place. In United Kingdom is generally approach high attainment for
getting better targeting marketplace. Foreign Laws and norms: To accommodating where it effectively having wide range of
company is seeking for to comprise structure that effectively acquire making marketing
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better place comprehensive without mapping for having place analysis. The analysing of
structure, generating high level of profitability can be more beneficial where valuation
of UK currency is more than dollar that can be good factor to implement that increase
optimising of working attainment in positive outcomes.
 Enhance of Currency: This pricing of important of making set of through various
alternatives factor where rates within currency get changes as per economic
standardised within enhance towards fluctuation that covers most challenging
international business (Gaganis, Pasiouras and Voulgari, 2019). As Vodafone Plc is
needed to value their wealth and revenue is measure on basis of currency as UK pounds
is high rate of value as 97-98 unit price that can improve towards getting positive way of
outcomes in effective manner that can more productive in international market. Thus,
this currency valuation factor not only increase revenue but also promotes better
valuation that can be determine most impactful in further market objectives.
Evaluation:
Through explaining about above situation commence that some strategies creates
complexities for Vodafone company. Forming policies, business culture, international structure
and currency rates fluctuation can decrease company's growth. As Vodafone operates their
business operation in global market to create better business opportunities in investment purpose
and more client engagement which increase business productivity in global business
environment.
M2. Analyse the strategic challenges associated with globalisation.
Many strategic challenges are link between company's structure that creates high impact
like norms, business culture, manpower, land etc. These factors are plays an important while
changing trend through globalisation aspect. In perspective of Vodafone plc, they need to
follows the guidelines of changing the trend of globalisation while optimising new business or
introducing new product in competitive. Government policies, taxation, currency rates are
creates hueg challenges to company for not getting proper growth in stabilise market.
D1. Critically evaluate about global business environment, including the opportunities and
challenges which faces by organisation.
As per global business environment it comprise better opportunities and challenges in
terms of market cost and external factors that support to provide information. Information
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involves overall factors that creates an impact on Vodafone business. Through assessment of
Pestle, it provide that Political, economic and legal might be challenging factor at the time of
investment in international market. But apart from it, opportunities generates through social,
technological and legal factor to develop their vision, mission and objective in competitive
market.
TASK 3.
P3. Evaluate the influences globalisation in Organisation.
There is high impactful of globalisation in any form of organisation that enhance to
approach in way to enhancing control role of organisation which is has affected through better
management within their leadership to getting improvise in skills and knowledge by applying on
consumer through generating positive based outcomes. In perspective of Vodafone Plc where it
ensures all type of development in having better base culture that enhance for better
understanding by high optimising to appreciate to regulates standardisation. Therefore, leaders is
having more working than manager as leader need to provide all instruction, monitor and control
employees performance for making productivity that improvise standardisation. The factor of
culture is learn for better standardisation mobilise standard better working regulation which is
effectively arises more positive outcomes. There is explanation of culture which Vodafone plc
leadership get to assort for attaining positive outcomes towards approaching 7s McKinsey's
model in Vodafone plc:
 Structure: this is type of which is company is tend for is organised chain of command
and accountability relationships which is necessary towards for attaining goals and
objectives clarity. Similarly, Vodafone plc is their having own structure before they have
establish their own culture for positive outcomes.
 Strategy: It mainly emphasis about well-curated business plan is better organised to
applies strategies that contains must consideration for better achieve organisation based
targets. For Example: As in Vodafone plc manager used to motivate their employees
towards achieve competitive advantages.
 System: To highlight process or regulation that effectively measure that enforced
company get to established where workflows chain of decision making, for example
manager or top level management design business working regulation that enhance in
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better way to accomplish goals and objectives that work flows which is enhance for
getting compliance about Vodafone plc working regulation to attain high objectives for
accomplish in productive manner.
 Skills: These aspect is full dependent on individual employees attribution that effective
capabilities and competencies where sort of getting approach all objectives in successful
manner (Ganamotse and et. al., 2017). For example: for Vodafone plc that enables
employees accomplish it objectives.
 Style: It is must that create understand to keeping professional attitude which is
effectively where is to form management style for its leaders. In perspective of Vodafone
plc management that covers towards making their employees who effective carries their
attitude which must attain high objective accomplish.
 Staff: According of this manpower indication where human resources related to company
that decision which recruiting, training and other form of managerial activities within
better reward system. In perspective of Vodafone plc it mainly approach about to
effective manpower to contribute to gain high positive outcomes through motivates them
by commencing generates reward and incentives.
 Shared Values: At the time of establishing business where it is necessary to highlight
about mission, vision, core values and objective of specific company which is effectively
measure to accommodate for generating positive outcomes in effective manner to getting
organisation design (Georgescu and Popescul, 2015). As considering example, Vodafone
plc is having major role towards better consider for attaining high influence of objectives
and productive goals accomplish.
Role of Leadership : It is aspect of managerial factor that mainly to seeking for attaining for
development individual skills and other competencies that undertaken for accomplishing
objective that ensure more profitability basis. In perspective of Vodafone plc which helps to
assort for more opportunities allocate that eventually for profit share. By leader opinion of
Vodafone that ensures about different systematic way to accommodation that help catalyst to
having provide better study profit in efficient manner towards generates mobilise overall get
functional as per optimum guidelines.
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P4. Evaluate the influences of ethical and sustainable globalisation of function.
By utilising of ethical and sustainability of globalisation of company related function to
generates for systematic form of guidance that scrutinize that effective for more productive way
to assort also measure understand about effective way to environment which is effective
important development. Within approach aspect that implement development as well as involves
high proficiency environment base product (Prajogo., 2016). Similarly, there is high productive
cost involves approach to get generate optimise outcomes Corporate Social Responsibility with
this business ethics that support to gain different types of positive development working practise
that elaborates better outcomes attaining outcomes in effective manner. There is having
difference that utilising for determines which significantly working function.
As Vodafone plc is having two offices that effective making to handle all working
activities in measure of through Ethical and Sustainability in their working function:
 Front Office Functions: These type of offices which is having highlight from
Vodafone plc that major work is having roles and responsibility reception and other
office to development that implement that sustain for productive outcomes for more
further aspect in better manner (Gooris and Peeters., 2016). By having front base
office in Vodafone plc to handling all records of Corporate Social
Responsibilities(CRM) is support to having record for further base client that
accommodate about clarity in objective to accomplish that helps to successful manner.
 Back office function: Some of department that implies to get approach to elaborates
function for generating support of front office. Through Vodafone plc is comprise in
various department through emerging human resource, operation, marketing and
information technology in better job creative manner (Głodowska, 2017). These
department is also operates in Vodafone plc working activities by following better
way of approaching in effective manner that enhance to get high positive outcomes for
undertaking about CSR and other business related ethical base process that can be
helpful to approach compliance oriented objective acquired.
M3 Critically in influences to application to appropriate theories and model relating
organisational structure .
McKinsey 7S model:
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It is framework to use as tool for mapping specific firm organisation design through
seven structure which highlight on Strategy, Structure, System, Shared Values, Style, Staff and
Skills. These factor helps to organisation for accomplishment objectives in effective manner. In
following 7S model explains in context of Vodafone Plc:
 Strategy: It is plan that developed by firm to accomplish sustained competitive
advantages and that helps to successful compete in market. Strategy plays an important
role to provide creativity and better logistic plan to better expand business.
 Structure: It is effectively represents the way business divisions in different form which
includes the information which is accountable in effective manner. Every organisation
has their own chart in which it highlight about top, middle and bottom management along
with their roles and responsibilities.
 Systems: As it is process for company activities where managers or top level authroity
form policies and certain rules that made decision for positive benefits. The System are
highlight about some areas where firm's that determines to main focuses manager during
organisation change.
 Skills: This is one of most important aspect that represent employees performance within
organisation premises that helps to attain task objectives. At the time of organisation
change skills matter to form new strategy and handle assignment for company's
productivity.
 Staff: According to this factor that highlight type and it enhance employees towards an
organisation which needed to hire, trained and motivated is majorly rewarded.
 Style: It represents as the way of company to managed top level manager undertakes
decisions and their action plans do they symbolic value. In other words, it is management
style to refers about leader's of company.
 Shared Values: As per this is one of core 7s model to improve standard to guide
employees towards organisation action takes places.
As per utilising of McKinsey 7s model in Vodafone Plc for analyse in better way to understand
about how company's leadership and governance can helps to understand the model where it
represent overall organisation process to implement systematic functions. Therefore this model
helps to Vodafone Plc for designing its organisation internal structure for attain competitive
advantages.
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Hofstede Dimension of Culture:
 Power Distance Index: As per this degree is emphasis about existing of inequality and
accepted among between people without having power involves. There is high and low
indicators where unequal existence is represents in high PDI. In other side low PDI
shows about power share in largely perspective.
 Individualism vs Collectivism: It denotes through “IDV”., the score is generally shows
about weak interpersonal connection that effectively propounded for family related that
shows responsibilities with other action and outcomes generates. In collective factor
there is emphasis that IDV score is represent that high rate of loyal person in group can
exchange and protect can defend each other interest.
 Masculinity vs Femininity(MAS): It denotes with “MAS” ., it is major refers about
dividing of power between male and woman along with their job roles. In Masculinity
society, men are more focused and appraised where women are less fortunate for
participation. In femininity society, there is great deal to overlap between male and
female work roles, and perceived in effective manner. MAS importance exists as it stats
about good relationship between among supervisor and employees.
In above Hofesde Dimension culture is explains about three factors which essential for
Vodafone Plc which helps to understanding about internal and external culture guides to allows
how business culture impact on employees as well as infrastructure. Therefore, this culture
model defines that power and job roles divided into authority and designation basis. Equality in
gender, work responsibility and pay structure highlight positive working environment and it
helps to reduces uncertainty factor of Vodafone Plc company.
Task 4.
P5. Different ways of decision making work effectively in global context.
There are some certain base of aspect which is more influencing working regulation as
along with objective for attaining positive outcomes through enhance better decision making on
the basis of ethical decision making that helps to way out mapping challenges of opportunities
for enhancing effective alternatives that implement to optimise positive outcomes for upbringing
where globalisation benefits towards gaining highlights (Passera, Kankaanranta and Louhiala-
Salminen, 2017). Meanwhile, as per presence of ethical code is get to uplifted in environment
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