INTRODUCTION
Business environment is a broader concept that includes various factors that might be internal or external to the business and influences the operation of the firm up to a great extent. The environment in which the firm operates is further categorized into two parts that is micro and macro environment. They are inter-related with each other and have a key role in influencing the working of the company. However, the intensity of these influences is dependent on the type of organizations. Thus, it is important to analyze the environment so as to foster easy flow of activities (Morrison, 2012). Concerning this, the main focus of the current research is to evaluate different size, structure, purpose, type and scope of different business organizations. As a business analyst of Tesco, an examination is relation with its varied types and size of the business will be carried out in the present research report. It is largest British retailer having large amount of sales dealing in grocery and other essential products. The firm was able to achieve this brand image and reputation by taking into consideration numerous strategies with the passage of time. The firm has many competitors which force the firm to innovate themselves so as to have a competitive edge in the retail market (Tesco, 2014). Furthermore, there are many competitors of TESCO such as Sainsbury, Morrison, ASDA and Iceland. Here, in this report study, brief explanation about these three varied firms operating in the same marker and industry will be done and their scope, size, mission and ownership will be discussed significantly.
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P1 Different types and purposes of organizations
Basis of difference |
Tesco |
Sainsbury |
Iceland |
Size |
The market size of Tesco is large |
The market size of Sainsbury is also large |
The market size of Iceland is medium |
Stakeholders |
The major stakeholder of the company are customers, suppliers, employees |
Main stakeholders of the firm are customers, suppliers, employees |
In the Iceland also customers, suppliers, employees are the major stakeholders |
Ownership |
It is a Public limited company (De Ruijter, 2014) |
It is also Public limited company |
It is a Private limited company |
Purpose |
To diversify their business in varied markets |
Exceeding expectations of the customers through providing healthy food with quality |
The main purpose is to deliver products having good quality with reasonable amount |
Business Sector |
It is related with tertiary sector |
It is related with both tertiary and secondary sector |
It is related with tertiary sector (Jones, 2013) |
Different types of organizations
Focusing towards the types of organizations, it is being categorized into private, not-for-profit and public companies. Speaking in relation with the private firms, the ownership as well as control of these firms is in the hands of individuals like Microsoft, Apple, Iceland etc. they just wanted to increase their revenue and profits. On the other hand, public companies are those who’s ownership and control is in the hands of government like army, hospitals etc. They are engage in developing different provisions about health, education and defense. Lastly, not-for-profit organizations, they are non-government firms and their revenue is re-invested in the expansion of the business. Employees are allowed to work on their account with or without any sort of payment (Coulter, 2005).
There are other organizations as well such as profit, non-profit and non-governmental organizations. Profit organizations include partnership, sole traders and limited companies and the main aim of these firms is to increase their income. Revenue is being regarded as an important source for their existence. Profits earned by these organizations are invested in those projects which can reap out further benefits to them and welfare of the community is the least priority for these firms. On contrary to this, serving the humanity and society is the main motive of establishment of non-profit organizations. They make use of their revenue being earned for the welfare of the community and natural environment where they perform their business activities. For non-profit organizations, donations and grants plays a pivotal role in their existence. Finally, non-governmental firms are formed by the general public and there main aim is to serve the society and humanity as a whole (DuBrin, 2008). They are not related with government and offer basic necessity to the needy people. &n