BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Business Environment

Assessment Requirements

An electronic copy of your assessment must be fully uploaded by the deadline date and time.

You must submit one single PDF or MS Office Word document. Any relevant images or screenshots must be included within the same MS Office Word or PDF document.

The last version you upload will be the one that is marked.

The file size must not exceed 20MB.

Answer the criteria in order, clearly indicating the pass criteria number.

Ensure that all work has been proof-read and checked prior to submission.

Ensure that the layout of your documents are in a professional format with font style Arial, font size 12 for the text, font 14 for sub heading and font 16 for main heading, line spacing 1.5 and justified.

Use the Harvard referencing system, otherwise it will be considered as plagiarised work.

Ensure that you back-up your work regularly and apply version control to your documents.

Ensure that any file you upload is virus-free, not corrupted and not protected by a password otherwise they will be treated as a non-submission.

You must NOT submit a paper copy or email of this assessment to any member of staff at LSST.

Your work must be original with the appropriate referencing

PART A - PASS CRITERIA ONLY

Pass

In order to achieve Pass, students must achieve all the Learning Outcomes

Case Study - Choose an organisation in the UK which you will use as a basis for all your answers for this Assignment. It may be a company which you work for or one you would like to work for, business start-up idea or an organisation you are familiar with. What is the name of your chosen organisation? Briefly describe the organisation.

Guidelines - Recommended interim deadline 9th March - Approx 100 words

You should choose an organisation which you can easily find out about either on the internet or by some other means. It must be a different organisation from the one you choose for Business Strategy.

Company Name

British Airways

Description

British Airways is the United Kingdom's airline that is flag carrier, and founded in Waterside, close to its central hub at Heathrow Airport, London. It is amongst one of the largest airlines of the UK in terms of international flights, international destinations, and fleet size and second largest in terms of carrying passengers, after easyJet.

British Airways is basically a naissance member of 'Oneworld airline alliance', and also with the 'Qantas', 'American Airlines' , 'Cathay Pacific', and the currently obsolete 'Canadian Airlines'. This alliance has progressed to become as the third largest alliance, behind Star Alliance and SkyTeam. International Airlines Group, i.e. the parent company of British Airways is listed on the LSE (British Airways Report, 2008-09).

In answering this question, you will have covered the following assessment criterion

1.1 identify the purposes of different types of organisation

TASK 1 - The organisational purposes of your chosen business

1.1 Identify the type of organisation you have chosen and its main purposes

Type

British Airways is a business organisation in the airline industry that works for providing chartered and scheduled flights for passengers and also ...