BTEC HND DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS (LEVEL four)
ASSIGNMENT COVERSHEET 2021
UNIT TITLE & CODE UNIT 1: Business & Business Environment
Unit Code: T/618/5032 LEVEL four
ASSIGNMENT ISSUE DATE 05/12/2021 ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION DATE 05/01/2021 Phrase Rely
2000-2500
Unit 1: Business and the Business Environment
Authorised Task Transient 1
Scholar Title/ ID Quantity
Unit Quantity and Title Unit 1: Business and the Business Environment
Submission Date 30/12/2021
Submission format
The submission is in the type of a portfolio of factsheets and an organisational move chart doc. The factsheets needs to be written concisely to summarise and spotlight key data and knowledge. You’re required to utilize headings, paragraphs and sub-sections as acceptable. All work should be supported with analysis and referenced appropriately utilizing the Harvard referencing system (or an alternate referencing system).
Additionally, you will want to offer a bibliography utilizing the Harvard referencing system (or an alternate referencing system). Inaccurate use of referencing could result in problems with plagiarism if not utilized appropriately.
The advisable phrase restrict for the factsheets is 1,000–2,000 phrases, though you’ll not be penalised for going beneath or exceeding the whole phrase restrict.
Unit Studying Outcomes
LO1 Clarify the differing types, dimension and scope of organisations.
LO2 Reveal the interrelationship of the varied features inside an organisation and how they hyperlink to organisational construction.
Transferable abilities and competencies developed
• Analytical abilities to conduct personal Assessment to attract conclusions.
• The power to offer data based mostly on collation, Assessment and interpretation of information.
• Artistic pondering for presenting data and knowledge in a simplified and informative method.
• Digital abilities, utilizing completely different software program functions to visually current data and knowledge concisely.
• Speaking successfully in all types, written, visible and oral, for working effectively in the worldwide enterprise setting.
Vocational state of affairs
Organisation
Bansons group is the pioneers in the which has been working the standardized enterprise since 1965 which implies greater than 4 a long time. Bansons was the first firm in sports activities which was awarded the ISO 9001certificates in Sri Lanka. Banson is the direct approved companion for Hoist, Eleiko, Ivanko, Nordic Sport and Karson and it has the dealerships of well-known different manufacturers too.
Strategic Planning groups preserve the firm shifting in the proper course by main the strategic enterprise planning course of and spearheading transformational tasks throughout the companies and geographies. Embedded in groups throughout the firm, technique professionals discover advanced enterprise points; conduct client, aggressive and market analyses; create monetary fashions and develop motion plans. The Strategic Planning groups Help write the way forward for sport by charting the firm’s path ahead.
Function
You’re employed as a Junior Insights Strategist for the Strategic Planning crew. The crew acts as a key companion to senior leaders, the govt crew and the CEO. It supplies thought management and an exterior perspective on the most important strategic initiatives and urgent challenges dealing with the firm. Your key roles embrace the following:
• supporting knowledge and enterprise analyses to develop enterprise plans
• measuring enterprise efficiency to check precise knowledge to forecasted values
• executing market analysis tasks and gathering intelligence on present , expertise and client developments.
Task exercise and steerage
You might have been tasked with conducting an Assessment that focuses on the sports activities in an effort to achieve entry to views, finest practices from different high- efficiency firms and perception into high-growth sectors. You’ll current your Assessment to your line supervisor and to the administration crew. The Assessment will contain the analysis and Assessment of general market dimension (worldwide and nationwide) and completely different sub-sectors (public, personal, voluntary), and the organisational mapping of certainly one of the highest-performing firms. Organisations to be thought of will embrace public (nationwide and native sports activities organisations, native leisure centres), personal (gyms, sporting items, retailers, producers) and voluntary (native golf equipment and groups).
You’ll current this Assessment as a portfolio of ‘insights’ factsheets, to incorporate:
1. an introduction to sub-sectors and the several types of organisation in the , the market dimension and the progress of the worldwide enterprise setting
2. a factsheet for a specific sub-sector organisation, with clarification of every of the chosen organisations, together with background particulars of the organisation; the merchandise and providers they provide; the dimension and scope of the organisation; their imaginative and prescient, mission and enterprise goals; the organisational and authorized construction and details about their stakeholders.
For enterprise modelling functions, additionally, you will want to look at the varied enterprise features in a single organisation and create an organisational chart to discover the interrelationships between the completely different features.
Along with the ‘insights’ factsheets, you’ll current an organisational move chart that exhibits:
three. an Assessment for certainly one of the chosen organisations, utilizing visible mapping to point out how inner departments, for instance. finance, advertising, work collectively to fulfill enterprise goals and how interrelationships are outlined by the construction of the organisation; current the benefits and disadvantages
four. conclusions based mostly on vital impression Assessment of various enterprise buildings and the interrelationships between inner departments in efficiently fulfilling general enterprise goals.
Advisable Assets
Please notice that the assets listed are examples so that you can use as a place to begin in your analysis – the listing is just not definitive.
Weblinks
Allied Market Analysis (2020) Sports activities Attire Market by Finish Person. Accessible at: https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/sports-apparel-market
Xtensio (2021) Find out how to Create a Reality Sheet. Accessible at: https://xtensio.com/how-to-create-a-fact-sheet
The Sportswear Business: An Assessment of The Athletic Attire Market. Accessible at: https://creatitive.com/sports-industry-analysis-2019/
HubSpot (2021) 9 Sorts of Organizational Construction Each Firm Ought to Contemplate. Accessible at
https://weblog.hubspot.com/advertising/team-structure-diagrams
HN International
HN International (2021) Studying Lists. Accessible at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/learning- zone/reading-lists
HN International (2021) Scholar Useful resource Library. Accessible at: https://hnglobal.highernationals. com/topics/resource-libraries
HN International (2021) Textbooks. Accessible at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/textbooks
Textbooks
Burns, J. and Needle, D. (2019) Business in Context: An Introduction to Business and its
Environment. seventh Ed. Cengage Studying
Worthington, I. and Britton. C. (2018) The Business Environment. eighth Ed. Harlow: Pearson
Authorised Task Transient 2
Scholar Title/ ID Quantity
Unit Quantity and Title Unit 1: Business and the Business Environment
Tutorial Yr 2021
Unit Tutor Mr. Shanjayan Arthmarajan
Task Title Environmental Business Audit Presentation
Challenge Date 28/11/2021
Submission Date 30/12/2021
Submission format
Submission is in the type of a 15-minute presentation and 5 minutes for questions. The presentation slides for the findings needs to be submitted together with speaker notes as one copy. You’re required to make efficient use of PowerPoint headings, bullet factors and subsections as acceptable. Your analysis needs to be referenced utilizing the Harvard referencing system (or an alternate referencing system). Inaccurate use of referencing could result in problems with plagiarism if not utilized appropriately.
The advisable phrase restrict is 1,000–1,500 phrases, together with speaker notes, though you’ll not be penalised for going beneath or exceeding the whole phrase restrict.
Unit Studying Outcomes
LO3 Use modern examples to show each the optimistic and destructive affect/ impression the macro setting has on enterprise operations.
LO4 Decide the inner strengths and weaknesses of particular companies and their interrelationship with exterior macro components.
Transferable abilities and competencies developed
• Analytical abilities to conduct personal Assessment in an effort to draw conclusions.
• Offering data based mostly on collation, Assessment and interpretation of information.
• Artistic pondering for presenting data and knowledge in a simplified and informative method.
• Digital abilities, utilizing completely different software program functions to visually current data and knowledge concisely.
• Speaking successfully in all types, written, visible and oral, for working effectively in the worldwide enterprise setting.
Vocational state of affairs
In your function as Junior Insights Strategist, you could have accomplished the perception Assessment and your line supervisor has now given you one other challenge. That is to finish analysis into the exterior and inner enterprise setting. The Banson Group is trying
to increase their distribution channels to incorporate each e-commerce gamers (for instance Google purchasing) and bodily retailers (for instance JD Sports activities). To allow the firm to make any strategic choices, they want you to current a enterprise case to the management crew.
Task exercise and steerage
Completion of the challenge will contain a PESTLE Assessment to analysis the sports activities retail market, develop insights and predict future progress potential in new markets. The challenge may also contain a SWOT Assessment to find out the firm place in the market and the potential alternatives for distribution enlargement whereas minimising dangers and threats.
Your presentation will embrace the findings from an exterior and an inner audit:
• a PESTLE Assessment to determine optimistic and destructive impacts of exterior components and influences on the sports activities retail market, together with a ‘visitors mild chart’ evaluating degree of competitors, funding exercise, authorized complexity and funding alternative accessible
• a SWOT Assessment to discover and clarify the organisation’s inner strengths and weaknesses as an organization
• vital Assessment of each the exterior and inner components, to find out whether or not the organisation ought to proceed with their enlargement plans, introduced as conclusions and suggestions.
Advisable Assets
Please notice that the assets listed are examples so that you can use as a place to begin in your analysis – the listing is just not definitive.
Weblinks
BPlan Find out how to Do a SWOT Assessment for Higher Strategic Planning. Accessible at: https://articles. bplans.com/how-to-perform-swot-analysis
Business Balls Swot Assessment Templates. Accessible at: https://www.businessballs.com/strategy-innovation/swot-analysis/
Pestle Assessment.com What’s PESTLE Assessment? Accessible at: https://pestleanalysis.com/what-is-pestle-analysis/
Swot Assessment of Nike. Accessible at:
https://bstrategyhub.com/swot-analysis-of-nike-nike-swot-analysis
HN International
HN International (2021) Studying Lists. Accessible at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/learning- zone/reading-lists
HN International (2021) Scholar Useful resource Library. Accessible at: https://hnglobal.highernationals. com/topics/resource-libraries
HN International (2021) Textbooks. Accessible at: https://hnglobal.highernationals.com/textbooks
Textbooks
Morrison, J. (2020) The International Business Environment: In the direction of Sustainability? fifth Ed. Crimson Globe Press
Wetherley, P. and Otter, D. (2018) The Business Environment: Themes and Points in a
Globalised World. 4th Ed. Oxford: Oxford College Press.
Studying Outcomes and Assessment Standards
Move Advantage Distinction
LO1 Clarify the differing types, dimension and scope of organisations LO1 and LO2
P1 Clarify differing types and functions of organisations; public, personal and voluntary sectors and authorized buildings. M1 Analyse how the construction, dimension and scope of various organisations hyperlink to the enterprise
goals and product and providers provided by the organisation. D1 Present vital Assessment of the complexities
of various organisations and buildings.
P2 Clarify the dimension and scope of a spread of several types of organisations.
LO2 Reveal the interrelationship of the varied features inside an organisation and how they hyperlink to organisational construction
P3 Clarify the relationship between completely different organisational features and how they hyperlink to organisational goals and construction. M2 Analyse the interrelationships between organisational features and the impression that may have upon organisational construction.
LO3 Use modern examples to show each the optimistic and destructive affect/impression the macro setting has on enterprise operations LO3 and LO4
D2 Critically consider the impacts that each macro- and micro components have on enterprise goals and determination making.
P4 Determine the optimistic and destructive impacts the macro setting has on enterprise operations, supported by particular examples. M3 Apply appropriately the PESTLE mannequin to Help an in depth Assessment of the macro setting in an organisation.
LO4 Decide the inner strengths and weaknesses of particular companies and their interrelationship with exterior macro components
P5 Conduct inner and exterior Assessment of particular organisations so as
to determine strengths and weaknesses. M4 Apply appropriately SWOT/ TOWS Assessment and justify how they affect determination making.
P6 Clarify how strengths and weaknesses interrelate with exterior macro components.
Task Tips
Sort your project clearly
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Font dimension
Headings: 14 pt, Daring, Underlined
Sub-headings: 12 pt, Daring, Underlined
Physique: 12 pt, regular
Align: Justify
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Numbering: at the backside proper hand nook
Header
Left side- topic identify
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Footer
Left side- batch quantity
Proper side-page quantity
Task compiling order
a) IV Type
b) Assessment Document Sheet
c) Cowl sheet
d) Task Transient
e) Scholar Assessment Submission and Declaration
f) Acknowledgement
g) Government Abstract
h) Contents
i) Introduction
j) Physique
ok) Conclusion
l) References
m) Appendix
• All the Figures, Tables, Diagrams and many others. needs to be numbered
• Label sketches correctly and neatly.
• Write on just one facet of the paper.
• Make the most of a desk of contents and part headings the place relevant.
• Use dimension A4 paper.
• Present a title web page and a entrance cowl.
• Don’t forget to signal the plagiarism assertion on the cowl sheet of your project.
• Please notice that plagiarism is handled as a critical offence and due to this fact the work you produce should be particular person and unique though may match in teams in some occasion
• All sources of data should be referenced utilizing “Harvard referencing” the place a reference itemizing needs to be included at the finish of the project
• Assignments returned to college students for re-working should be re-submitted inside 15 days (Please check with Scholar Handbook on Assignments – Re-submission).
• Failure to re-submit the beforehand marked project with the re-submitted project will imply that outcomes can’t be launched for the respective unit.
• Please notice that the technical failures which happen throughout the project processing interval aren’t counted as an excuse for late submissions. As a precaution you might be anticipated to have a backup file (a duplicate of your project) by all means saved in the system to keep away from sudden system crashes and technical failures.
• The moral procedures of the course strictly preserve an information safety coverage on college students’ work and you need to submit a smooth copy of your accomplished project alongside along with your accomplished project exhausting copy in an effort to keep away from project data distribution amongst others.
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A portfolio of factsheets and an organizational move chart doc are included in the proposal. The factsheets needs to be ready succinctly in an effort to summarize and spotlight related knowledge and data. You should make the most of headings, paragraphs, and sub-sections at the acceptable locations. All work should be researched and correctly referenced utilizing the Harvard referencing methodology (or an alternate referencing system).
You should additionally supply a bibliography that follows the Harvard reference format (or an alternate referencing system). If not used appropriately, inaccuracy in reference may result in plagiarism difficulties.
Though you’ll not be penalized for going beneath or surpassing the whole phrase restrict, the advisable phrase restrict for factsheets is 1,000–2,000 phrases.
Studying Goals for the Unit
LO1 Talk about the varied varieties, sizes, and scopes of organizations.
LO2 Present how the varied features inside a company are interconnected and how they relate to the organizational construction.
Developed transferable abilities and competencies
• The power to ship data based mostly on knowledge collation, Assessment, and interpretation; and • Analytical abilities to conduct personal Assessment and develop conclusions.
• Potential to assume creatively about the best way to show information and knowledge in a approach that’s each easy and informative.
• Digital skills, together with the capability to visually current data and knowledge using a wide range of software program functions.
• Efficient written, visible, and spoken communication in an effort to function productively in a global company context.
Job-related scenario
Organisation
The Bansons Group is a forerunner in the sector, having operated a standardized operation since 1965, a interval of greater than 4 a long time. Bansons was the first sports activities agency in Sri Lanka to be awarded the ISO 9001 certification. Banson is a direct approved companion for Hoist, Eleiko, Ivanko, Nordic Sport, and Karson, in addition to having dealerships for plenty of different well-known firms.
By driving the strategic enterprise planning course of and directing transformational tasks throughout companies and international locations, Strategic Planning groups preserve the group getting into the proper approach. Technique consultants work in groups throughout the group to analyze tough enterprise points, conduct client, aggressive, and market Assessment, set up monetary fashions, and develop motion plans. By setting the firm’s course ahead, the Strategic Planning groups Help write the way forward for sport.
Function
You’re employed for the Strategic Planning crew as a Junior Insights Strategist. Senior leaders, the govt crew, and the CEO depend on the crew as a vital useful resource. It supplies thought management and an out of doors perspective on the firm’s most necessary strategic initiatives and urgent considerations. The next are a few of your most necessary obligations:
• knowledge and enterprise analyses to Help the improvement of enterprise plans
• evaluating precise knowledge to predicted values to evaluate enterprise efficiency
• doing market analysis and acquiring data on present , technological, and client developments.
Exercise and course for the project
You’ve got been entrusted with doing a sports activities research in an effort to receive entry to views, finest practices from different high-performance organizations, and perception into high-growth areas. Your Assessment can be introduced to your line supervisor and the administration crew. The research and Assessment of the general market dimension (worldwide and nationwide) and a number of sub-sectors (public, personal, voluntary), in addition to the organizational mapping of certainly one of the best-performing enterprises, can be a part of the Assessment. Public (nationwide and native sports activities organizations, native leisure centres), personal (gyms, sporting merchandise, retailers, producers), and voluntary organizations will all be evaluated (native golf equipment and groups).
