INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

LEVEL 5 DIPLOMA IN LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

WORK-BASED ASSIGNMENT CONFIRMATION FORM

WORK-BASED ASSIGNMENT NUMBER M5.10

I confirm that this work-based assignment is the work of

Candidate name

Ben Heaviside…………………………………..

Learner enrolment number

EBO3559…………………………………………

Name of tutor

Fiona Stuart-Wilson ………………………………

Work Based Assignment M5.10 – Understanding the organisational Environment

“Be able to analyse how an organisation is affected by the macro environment”

1.1 Chambers PESTLE analysis (please see appendix 1)

Political

1.2 Various factors in the political arena have had and will continue to have a huge impact on chambers and the way it conducts its business. Reduced expenditure on public funding is high on the government’s agenda (and I will go into this in more detail later in the assignment) and it is safe to say it will have an impact on chambers income and future direction. Chambers is well placed to deal with this though as we have made additions both in terms of staffing and barristers who do not practice within the affected area to make up the short fall.

1.3 This may be altered in some way by a change in governmental leadership, which could be anticipated in the next year with the general election looming. However with more and more of the UK’s power being transferred to Brussels and the outside influence that the EU has on the UK legal system, it could mean that there is more work for chambers to pick up due to changes to the human rights laws and subsequent appeals that follows as a result.

1.4 Our inclusion in the EU has resulted in higher levels of immigration of individuals from other EU countries. This was also coupled with an 11% increase in application for workings visas in 2013. With this have come individuals who do not want to come to integrate