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Unit: 01 Business and Business Environment

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 STUDENT ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION AND DECLARATION
When submitting evidence for assessment, each student must sign a declaration confirming that
the work is their own.

Student name: D D G S DODANGODA Assessor name: Ms. Malinthika Sewwandi

Issue date:25.07.2021 Submission date: 11.09.2021 Submitted on:

11.09.2021

Programme:

Higher National Diploma in Business

Unit:

Unit 01:Businesss and Business Environment

Assignment number and title:

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Student signature: Gehan Dodangoda Date: 11.09.2021

Assignment Brief (RQF)

Higher National Diploma in Business
Student Name/ID Number: D D G S DODANGODA / 519887

Unit Number and Title: Unit 01: Business and the Business Environment

Academic Year: 2020/21

Unit Assessor: Ms. Malinthika Sewwandi

Assignment Title: Managing the Business and its environment

Issue Date: 25.07.2021

Submission Date: 11.09.2021

Internal Verifier Name:

Date:

Submission Format:

The submission is in the form of an individual written report. This should be written in a
concise, formal business style, using single spacing and font size 12. You are required to make
use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate, and all work must be supported
with research and referenced using Harvard referencing system. Provide a bibliography using
the Harvard referencing system. The recommended word limit is 3000-4000 words. You will
not be penalised for exceeding the total word limit.

Unit Learning Outcomes:

LO1 Explain the different types, size and scope of organisations

LO2 Demonstrate the interrelationship of the various functions within an organisation and how
they link to organisational structure

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Assignment Brief and Guidance:

Management is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives
using available resources efficiently and effectively. Since organizations can be viewed as
systems, management can also be defined as human action, including design, to facilitate the
production of useful outcomes from a system. This view opens the opportunity to manage
oneself, a pre-requisite to attempting to manage others. As a newly appointed Business
Development Manager for an organisation of your choice, you have been tasked with leading
on developing the business of organizational change. In order to test your abilities, the
managing director has asked you to carry out a research on environmental analysis and the
fundamental concepts and principles of business applicable to the organisation. Based on the
findings of your research, provide answers on all of the following tasks

Task 01.
 Identify the “different types of organization” that exist in the country. And explain the
purposes of your organization and why you think its purpose (reason of existence) is
different from the manufacturing company/ service oriented company.
 Explains the “legal structure of organisations” that exists in the country. And draws the pros
and cons of these legal forms.
 Differentiate between SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE organisations including their
objectives.
 Explains the scopes for different sized organisations to meet its objectives
 Discuss the growth options (scope) available for your organization such as Franchising,
Licencing, Merger, and acquisition in order to achieve its strategic objectives. You are
required to draw the advantages for selecting a particular option with recommendations,
while considering the strengths and weakness.

 Explains the different types of organisational structure available for organisations including
its advantages and disadvantages. And also identify the organisational structure for your
organization.
 Explains the importance of your organization functions such as Marketing, Finance, etc. to
achieve its objectives.
 Analyse the interrelationship between your organization functional departments including its
advantages and disadvantages and the impacts on its structure.
 Using the findings from the above questions, Investigate the complexities of different types
of business structure available for your organization and the interrelationships of its different
functions. And also you are required to draw a possible organisational structure and
functions for the organization along with recommendations for a better interrelationship

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 between your organizational functions.

Unit Learning Outcomes:

LO3 Use contemporary examples to demonstrate both the positive and negative
influence/impact the macro environment has on business operations
LO4 Determine the internal strengths and weaknesses of specific businesses and explain
their interrelationship with external macro factors

Assignment Brief and Guidance:

Part 02
 Identify some positive and negative impacts of the macro environment on Selected
organization operations
 Conduct an internal and external analysis to identified organization core strengths and
weaknesses using Porter’s Five Force model
 Explain how these strengths and weaknesses are linked to the external macro factors of
selected organization.

 Analyse the macro environment of organization using PESTEL model.

 Carry out a SWOT analysis for selected organization and justify the findings.
 Investigates the findings from PESTEL and SWOT analysis for an in-depth understanding of
the impact of the macro environment as well as to justify how this affects organisation’s
decision-making processes (Reflective statement). In addition you are required to provide
your own recommendations for the top management from the PESTEL and SWOT analysis.

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria:

Pass Merit Distinction
LO1 Explain the different types, size and scope of organisations LO1 & 2
D1 Provide a critical
P1 Explain different types and M1 Analyse how the structure, size analysis of the
purposes of organisations; public, and scope of different organisations complexities of different
private and voluntary sectors and link to the business objectives and types of business
legal structures. product and services offered by the structures and the
organisation. interrelationships of the
P2 Explain the size and scope of a

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range of different types of different organisational
organisations. functions.
LO2 Demonstrate the interrelationship of the various functions within an
organisation and how they link to organisational structure

P3 Explain the relationship M2 Analyse the advantages and

between different disadvantages of interrelationships
organisational functions and between organisational functions and
how they link to organisational the impact that can have upon
objectives and structure organisational structure.
LO3 Use contemporary examples to demonstrate both the positive and
negative influence/impact the macro environment has on business
operations LO3 & 4
P4 Identify the positive and P4 Identify the positive and negative D2 Critically evaluate the
negative impacts the macro impacts the macro environment has impacts that both macro
environment has upon business upon business operations, supported and micro factors have
operations, supported by by specific examples. upon business objectives
specific examples. and decision-making.
LO4 Determine the internal strengths and weaknesses of specific
businesses and explain their interrelationship with external macro
factors
P5 Conduct internal and M4 Apply appropriately SWOT/TOWS
external analysis of specific analysis and justify how they influence
organisations in order to decision-making.
identify strengths and
weaknesses.

P6 Explain how strengths and

weaknesses interrelate with
external macro factors.

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 Higher Nationals –Summative Assignment Feedback Form

Student Name / ID D D G S DODANGODA / 519887

Unit Title Unit 01: Business and Business Environment

Assignment Number 1 Assessor Ms.Malinthika Sewwandi

11.09.2021 Date Received 1st

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