Chapter 1 LSO In context

Question 0

What is a large scale Organisation

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A large scale Organisation employs 200 or more people, earns revenue in the millions, or has assets of more than $200 million.

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What Is a Organisation

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An Organisation is two or more people working together to achieve an objective.

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Multinational corporation

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A Multinational corporation is owned and based in one county and operates in many countries throughout the world.

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A shareholder

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Is any person who owns shares in a company.

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A Corporation

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Is owned by shareholders and aims to make a profit.

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Vision statement

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States what the organisation aspires to become.

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Mission statement

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Expresses why an organisation exist, it’s purpose and how it will operate.

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Objective

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Is a desired goal, outcome or specific result that an organisation intends to achieve.

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Invention

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Is the development of something new

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Innovation

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Occurs when something already established is improved apon

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Research and development

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Refers to activates undertaken to:
Improve existing products
Create new products

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Infrastructure

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Refers to highways, railways, airports, communications systems, educational and health facilities, wate, gas and electrical suppliers.

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Downsizing

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Involves workplace staff reductions, with the elimination of jobs and positions.

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Outsourcing

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Is the contracting of some organisations operations to outside suppliers.

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Internal enviroment

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Includes all those things over which the organisation has some degree of control

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External environment

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Includes those things over which the business has little control. It may be divided into an operating environment and a macro environment.

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An organisations Operating environment

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Refers to the outstand factors with which the organisation directly interacts in the course of conducting it’s business

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Customers

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Are the buyers or users of the products of a large-scale organisation.

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Competitors

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Are the organisations that offer rival products or services.

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Lobby groups

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Are groups of people who attempt to directly influence or persuade an organisation to adopt particular policies.

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Macro environment

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Is made up of the broad factors in the economy and society within which the organisation operates.

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Globalisation

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Is the effect of hi-tech communications, lower transport costs and unrestricted trade and financial flows turning the whole world into a single market, producing a more integrated global economy system

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Effectiveness

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Is the degree to which an organisation has achieved it’s stated objectives

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Efficiency

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Refers to how well an organisation uses resources to achieve objectives.

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Number of sales

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Measures the number of products sold.

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Percentage of market share

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Is the proportion of the total market that a business has, expressed as a percentage

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The rate of productivity growth

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Measures the change in productivity in one year compared to the previous year.

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A customer survey

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Measures how satisfied customers are with the organisations performance

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A staff survey

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Measures how satisfied staff are within the organisation.

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Staff turnover

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Measures the number of staff who are leaving the organisation.

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Customer complaints

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Indicate whether or not customers are satisfied with the performance of the organisation.

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The level of wastage

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Measures the amount of waste created ny the production process.

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The number of workplace accidents

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Indicates how safe the workplace is for employees.

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Benchmarking

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Occurs when an organisation measures it’s performance against that of other leading organisations known for their excellence.

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Stakeholders

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Are groups and individuals who interact with the organisation and have an interest in it’s activities.

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Social responsibility

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Is the obligations a business has over and above it’s legal responsibilities to the well being of employees and customers, shareholders and the community as well as the environment.