...Unit 1 Government Policies and the Public Services [pic] Assessment Book (Credits 10) | |Eddie Maylor | |Student Name | | |Start of Unit Date |24 September 2012 | |Completion of Unit Date | | | |Unit Tutor: James McQueen | |Group / Course |Diploma in public services | Learning Outcomes • Know the different levels of government I the UK • Understand the democratic election process for each level of government in the UK • Understand the impact of UK government policies on the public services • Be able to demonstrate how government policies are developed Unit Criteria Passed |Pass |1 |2 |3 | | | | ...
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...|Student Name : | | |Course Title : |90 Credit Diploma – Public Services | |Assessment Title : |Roles and Levels of Government and the Electoral Processes | | | |Unit Title : |Government, Policies and the Public Services | | | |Does this assignment cover the whole of the unit |Yes |No | | |If No, clearly state the sections of the unit, or the Assessment Criteria, that are being assessed. | | | |Internal Verifier : |Rob Offord | | ...
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...or sales of products or services that are performed to earn money. Meanwhile ‘Environment’ means the aspect of surroundings. Business environment is the set of conditions institutional, political, economical, legal or social that is uncontrollable and affects the functions of the organization. Business environment consists of two components: external environment and internal environment. Internal environment includes of 5 M’s like management, money, machinery, material and man. On the other hand, External environment consists of demo-graphical factors, socio-cultural factors, political factors, geo-physical factors, government and legal factors. 5. Understand the organizational purpose of business 1.1 Identify the purpose of different types of organizations There are different types of organizations and mainly all kinds of organizations are divided in three sectors: public sectors, private sectors and voluntary sector organizations. The purposes of those organizations are not same. Public sector is owned and run by the government for the people. People pay taxes to the government and this money is used to finance most of the public sectors. The main purposes of public sectors organizations are to provide essential public services and to use resources well for the benefit of the community. Private sector businesses are owned and run by private individuals. Examples of private sector businesses are franchises, companies (private and public), partnership and sole...
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...meet them pg.6,7 2.1 Explain how economic systems attempt to allocate resources effectively pg.7, 8 2.2 Assess the impact of fiscal and monetary policy on business organisations and their activities pg.8, 9 2.3 Evaluate the impact of competition policy and other regulatory mechanisms on the activities of a selected organisation pg.10 3.1 Explain how market structures determine the pricing and output decisions of businesses pg.11 3.2 Illustrate the way in which market forces shape organisational responses using a range of examples pg.12 3.3 Judge how the business and cultural environments shape the behaviour of a selected organisation pg.13 4.1 Discuss the significance of international trade to UK business organisations pg.14 4.2 Analyse the impact of global factors on UK business organisations pg.15 4.3 Evaluate the impact of policies of the European Union on UK business organisations pg.15, 16 INTRODUCTION IN THIS ASSIGNEMENT I WILL INDENTIFY AND DISCUSS THE TYPES OF ORGANISATION, I WILL EXPLAIN THE RESPONSABILITIES OF ORGANISATION THE ECONOMIC SYSTE. I WILL SHOW THE KEY OBJECTIVES COMPETITION POLICY AND HOW THE MARKET STRUCTURES DETERMINE THE PRICING OF THE DECISIONS OF BUSINESS. I WILL ANALYSE THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL FACTORS ON UK BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS AND I WILL EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF THE POLICIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION ON UK ORGANISATION. IN THE END I WILL MAKE CONCLUSION ABOUT THE STRATEGIES, METHODS OF BUSINESS ACTIVITES. MAIN BODY BUSINESS...
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...Task – 1 1.1 Identify the purposes of different types of organization. Business organisations: To make a profit in a socially standard way. For example: Airlines, Fast food. Non-profit service organisations: They want to help to all of people without any profit. For example: NHS, Universities. Mutual-benefit organisations: Individuals join together to pursue their own self-interest. For example: Clubs, Trade Union. Commonweal organisations: They provide service to all members of a given population. For example: Fire Service, Police. Organisations by their intended purpose: Private enterprise organisations: A "private sector" organisation is one that is owned and controlled by private individuals, not the government and usually exists to make a profit for its shareholders. Public sector organisations: A "public sector" organisation is one that is controlled by the government. It is called "public" because the government is responsible to the entire public. Commercial interest classification: Profit oriented: Profit-oriented means pricing strategies rely on setting a product or service's price to attain a specific, programmed net profit percentage. Non-profit oriented: In the broadest sense, an organisation in which no part of any net earnings can grow for the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. Size oriented classification: Large scale: To access the large-scale data sources efficiently and automatically, it is necessary to classify these...
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...allocation 8 2.2 Impact of fiscal and monetary policies in Business Organization 11 2.3 Impact of Competition policy and other regulatory mechanisms on the business 12 Task 3 14 Behaviour of Organisation in the Market Place 14 3.1 Market structure to determine the pricing and output decisions of businesses 14 3.2 Market forces shape organizational responses 15 3.3 The business and cultural environments shape the behaviour of an organization 16 Task 4 19 4.1 The significance of international trade to UK business organizations 19 4.2 The impact of global factors on UK business organizations 21 4.3 The impact of policies of the European Union on UK business organizations 25 Conclusion 28 References 29 Task 1 Different types of organizations and the purpose 1.1 Purpose of organization Before we learn about the types of organizations, we need to learn the basic purpose of setting organizations. The main purpose of organization is to provide a pathway to their business setup and to set the main objective for their business. Organizations help in making profit in a standard way. The different purpose of organizations helps in building the structure of company. Different types of organizations There are three types of organizations in business field. We will discuss each one by one. * PLC (Public Limited Company) - It is headed or guided by the government for the benefits of citizens. The main source of finance of public sector is the taxes...
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...assignment. Besides I would like to thank my parents for their huge support they have given me and also my beloved friends who encouraged me to complete my assignment. Executive Summary Organizations can be divided into private and public sector, and all the type of organizations in both sectors have different features though some features may be the same for different organizations. Next plc is a multinational firm which is operating in UK and it has several stakeholders which can be categorized into two groups, internal stakeholders and external stakeholders and also Next plc as an organization has it aims, objectives and goals which they target to achieve in future though they have achieved some in present too. Economic system is an organized way on how allocation of resources in an economy is done, how goods required by the consumers have been produced and how it is distributed, basically there are three types of economic systems where in all three economic system allocation of resources is done by different parties. Economic policies are implemented by the government the economy, both policies that the government use have a direct impact on country’s economy. Next plc as an organization also can affected when the government implements economic policies to the country’s economy. Next plc exports products to other countries and by doing this it enables international trade to take place. International trade brings several advantages to Next plc but it also must face certain issues...
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...business operates (LO2) 9 3.1 How different economic systems attempt to allocate resources effectively (P 2.1) 9 3.2 Impact of Fiscal and monetary policy on the activities of Tesco PLC (P 2.2). 10 3.3 Impact of competition policy and other regulatory mechanisms on the activities of Tesco Plc (P 2.3). 11 3.3.1 Impact of competition policy ON THE ACTIVITIES OF TESCO PLC 11 3.3.2 Impact of regulatory mechanisms on the activities of Tesco Plc 12 4. Understand the behaviour of the organizations in their market environment (LO3). 13 4.1 explain how market structures determine the pricing and output decisions of TEsco plc (P 3.1). 13 4.2 How market forces shape Tesco PLC UK responses using a range of examples (P 3.2). 14 4.3 Explain how the business and cultural environments shape the behaviour of Tesco PLC UK (P 3.3). 15 5. Significance of the global factors that shape national business activities (LO4) 16 5.1 SIGNIFICANCE of international trade to Tescos PLC UK ( P 4.1) 16 5.2 impact of global factors on Tescos PLC UK (P 4.2) 16 5.3 impact of polciies of the European Union on Tescos PLC UK (P 4.3) 17 6. Conclusions and Recommendations 18 7. Reference 19 8. Bibliography 21 Introduction In this report, different organizations purpose and responsibility will be discussed specifically the purposes of Tesco PLC that is an UK based public limited...
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...and technology and management practices to achieve a goal” Umstot (1998). A business will always be owned by someone whether it’s an individual or hundreds, with different types of ownership and objectives. Although profit may not always be the main objective, as those of charities or government run enterprises, some profit will need to be made for them to continue in business long term. The majority of organisations will aim to make a profit however small or large. There are many types of business organisations, including sole traders, partnerships, public limited companies, private limited companies, franchises and those in the public sector e.g. local authority and N.H.S. Sole Traders This is a business owned by one person, and the most common according to BIS (Department for business innovation and skills statistical release 2013), its estimated 62.6% of UK businesses are sole traders, but as there is no central register for them it is hard to establish exact numbers, a sole trader will employ one or more people, and can easily be set up compared to other types of organisations, as it is cheap to do with minimal paperwork. There are many sole traders whose purpose is to provide a service i.e. window cleaners, hairdressers and plumbers. Some will be a small business that supplies a product like those of a newsagent or market trader selling fruit and veg. For example SAMS Plumbing ltd in hackney, north London is the trading name of Luther Sammy the owner, he provides a...
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...objectives. After those organizations have to decide about which strategies they use to achieve these objectives. There are some internal and external parties involved with large or even small business organization known as stakeholders. Stakeholders may be shareholders, managers or employees, customers, suppliers, lenders, and government. They have some objectives also. Organizations are responsible for their objectives. Organizations are also responsible to the society, and their customers. Every organization should concern about the business and cultural environment. Understanding the business and cultural environment organization can find out its strength, weakness, opportunity, and threats. Knowing these organization can overcome the threats and weakness and can go global. Through international trade organization can easily import or export goods and services which help to increase their economic conditions. Objective of British Airways is to provide smarter, smooth, and more comfortable journey to their passengers or customers. They do variety of jobs to fulfill their stakeholders’ objectives. Almost every organization produces goods and services for domestic demand. But if they produce more products, they can export their surplus to other country by...
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...| Task no. | Evidence | 1.1 | Identify the purposes of different types of organization | 1 | | 1.2 | Describe the extent to which an organization meets the objectives of different stakeholders | 1 | | 1.3 | Explain the responsibilities of an organization and strategies employed to meet them. | 1 | | 2.1 | Explain how economic systems attempt to allocate resources effectively | 2 | | 2.2 | Assess the impact of fiscal and monetary policy on business organizations and their activities | 2 | | 2.3 | Evaluate the impact of competition policy and other regulatory mechanisms on the activities of a selected organization | 2 | | 3.1 | Explain how market structures determine the pricing and output decisions of businesses | 3 | | 3.2 | Illustrate the way in which market forces shape organizational responses using a range of examples | 3 | | 3.3 | Judge how the business and cultural environments shape the behavior of a selected organization | 3 | | 4.1 | Discuss the significance of international trade to UK business organizations | 4 | | 4.2 | Analyze the impact of global...
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...TASK ONE a) Identify the mission values and key objectives of Tate and Lyle. How far does the expression of vision values and mission affect the performance of the organization? Tate and Lyle’s mission is to focus on value-added products and extend its operation worldwide. This mission is fuelled by the company’s desire to increase profit. They also have a mission to be consistently first in customer satisfaction. The expression of vision values and mission are important as a means of focusing attention on the means and the ends ; a value statement reflects the means which will used to attain the ends spelt out in the mission statement. Mission serves a beacon for organization and its employees therefore, it becomes imperative to remain focus to its element like goals and objective, strategic intent and direction and vision. Rarick & Vitton(1995) concluded that having a mission statement significantly increases shareholder equity.These are some examples of well known companies statement and it has obviously affected their present success stories: * Wal-Mart: "To give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same thing as rich people." * 3M: "To solve unsolved problems innovatively." * Walt Disney: "To make people happy." b) What do you consider to be stakeholder’s main objectives? Do you think these objectives are met by Tate and Lyle’s activities? Many people are involved in running a business. Some have direct interest while others have indirect interest...
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... LECTURER: MR TAIWO OLAJUMOKE BATCH: 11 LEVEL: 4 BUSINESS ENVIROMENT | Introduction | 3 | 1.1 | Identify the purpose of organisations | 3-4 | 1.2 | Describe to which extent Iceland Supermarket Ltd meets objectives of its different stakeholders. | 5-6 | 1.3 | Explain various responsibilities of Iceland | 7 | 2.1 | Different economic systems | 8-9 | 2.2 | Fiscal and monetary policy | 10-12 | 2.3 | Competition policy and other regulatory mechanism | 13-14 | 3.1 | Market structures determine the pricing and output decisions | 15-21 | 3.2 | Which market forces shape Iceland Supermarket responses | 21-22 | 3.3 | How the business and cultural environments shape the behaviour of Iceland | 22-23 | 4.1 | Significance of international trade to Iceland Supermarket | 23 | 4.2 | Impact of global factors on Iceland Supermarket | 24 | 4.3 | Impact of policies of the European Union on Iceland Supermarket | 25 | | Conclusion | 26 | | References “ | 27 | CONTENTS “ Introduction of Business Environment Controlling the environment in which businesses are being operated is called business environment. There are two types of business environments, internal and external environment which are necessary for survival and success of a business. Internal business environment are the factors within...
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...Incorporated Company: Incorporating business actions into a company confers life on the business as a "separate legal person", Profits and losses are the company's and it has its own debts and obligations. Types of the Business Organization: Private Company: A company whose ownership is private. Private companies may issue stock and have shareholders. Public Company: Public Company may be defined as, A company that has issued securities through an initial public offering (IPO) and is traded on at least one stock exchange or in the over the counter market. Government Company: Government Company may be defined by, it is a legal entity created by a government to start money-making activities on behalf of a proprietor government. Voluntary Organization: Voluntary organizations may be defined as, organizations are non-profit ambitious, self-directed and non-statutory, that are run by persons who accomplish not obtain salaried. Its main plan is to bring social advantage. Cooperative Organization: A cooperative organization is owned by and operated for the advantage of those persons using its services. Cooperative organization also known as user-owners. Charitable Organizations: A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). Sector’s of Business...
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