MGMT 20144 Assessment Item 1 Wesfarmers limited The relationship between business and management consist of the knowledge, behavior, and skill that steers a proactive relationship between different departments in an organisation. Management is defined as the process of reaching the organisational goals and objectives by working with and through organisational stakeholders and available organisational resources, business, on the other hand, is explain as an organisational entity that is involved in the provision of goods and services to consumers (Andersen, 2016). The primary purpose of this paper is to give an intellectual capacity of management in a business context. Wesfarmers Company is an organisation used to provide a clear relationship between the two contexts. The study will analyses vital business aspects and demonstrate critical issues such as organisational structure, environmental forces, risk confronting business, organisational business practices and organisational function of a diverse firm, climate change resilience, Waste and water use, competition and financial risks respectively. Decisional making and appropriate business strategy are the strategic management context that contributes towards achieving the set organisational goals and objectives. Organisational management have a role to play to enhance better decision-making as well as a substantial business strategy is developed (Ferrell & Fraedrich, 2015). Wesfarmers Limited is a corporation with its headquarters in Perth, Australia. The company is multinational corporation and it has predominantly focus in Australia and New Zealand market, it deals with production of fertilizers, chemical, coal mining and safety products. In 2016 financial year, Wesfarmers Limited had a revenue of AU$65.98 billion, overtaking Woolworths and BHB Billiton. Wesfarmers Limited is the largest private employer in Australia it has employed over 205, 000 employees (Datamonitor (Firm), 2000). The primary objectives of Wesfarmers is “To provide satisfactory returns to the shareholders through financial discipline and exceptional management of a diversified portfolio of businesses”. Organisational structure is defined as how essential organisation activities such as allocation of task, supervision, and coordination as directed towards achieving the organisational goals and objectives (Fan, Wong, & Zhang, 2013). The types of organisational structure comprise divisional, functional, geographical and matrix organisational structure. The divisional structure of an organisation is suitable for a firm that has distinct business units; the geographical organisational structure provides the hierarchy for an organisation that operates at several locations, especially for international enterprises (Lee, Kozlenkova, & Palmatier, 2015). A functional organisational structure is primarily based on each job and duties allocate to every person who operates in a specific depart. On the other hand, matrix organisational structure is involved in several distinctive supervisors for each job. The organisational structure of Wesfarmers Limited is considered as matrix since the company is having different division. In every division in the company is headed by a director whose responsibility is to coordinate, control and direct the divisional operations (Goetsch & Davis, 2014). Wesfarmers Limited Company operations involves two main sections retail and Industrial and other businesses. Each division is divided into different departments that also operate in Australia and New Zealand market. The primary elements of using matrix organisational structure are the number of employees, geographical operations, marketplace and product evolution (Pohoata & Socoliuc, 2014). First of all, the environmental business forces are the factor that primarily affects the operations of an enterprise. These aspects affect the decisional making process of management in relation to the responsibility of managing the organisation or the departments they lead. The internal environmental forces are those factors that originates within the enterprise, these factors affect the approach and the success of the internal operations of an enterprise (Zhang, Schmidt, Xie, & Li, 2016). On the other hand, external environmental forces are those factors that are outside the company, the management in an organisation does not have much control over the external factors (Chang, Yeh, & Liu, 2015). Wesfarmers Limited is a corporation that operates under various market. Richard Goyder is the company CEO, his responsibility to coordinate and control whole organisation operations. It is the obligation of top management to have knowledge, encourage proactive behaviors and develop skills of making the appropriate decision which related to the organisational missions and visions (Bryman & Bell, 2015). According to the company report, the enterprise is committed to proactively managing its community and environmental impacts. Second of all, Risk is defined as the possibility at which a company will have lower than anticipated returns and profit, the business risk is contributed by various factors such as sales volume, price per unit, competition overall economy, climate and government regulations. Wesfarmers Limited is a company that is involved in many business practices such as retail, industrial and other business activities, as a result of operating in different business activities the company is facing different business risk (Wagner III & Hollenbeck, 2014). Third of all, Organisational and business practices is a business management context that plays a critical role in the decisional making process, it also plays a vital role in developing business strategy that will promote achieving of organisational goals and objectives (Champoux, 2016). Sourcing is a business practice that involves accessing products and services from other companies and countries. Wesfarmers Limited retail business sources products various location like China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, South Korea, Malaysia and Europe. Sourcing products from other countries encourage economic benefits that contribute toward making appropriate business decisional making developing substantial business strategy; it also allows Wesfarmers Limited to offer affordable products to the consumers (Small, Bailey, Lydon, & Davern, 2013). Moreover, the organisational functions of a diverse firm contribute to the success of the organisations. Wesfarmers Limited is a diverse company that operates in different target markets. Diversity in business contributes many business concepts that affect the decision making of a diverse enterprise, the organisational management has to make decisions and business strategies that will be compatible with the targeted markets. Wesfarmers Limited is a diverse corporation whose objective is to provide satisfactory returns to the shareholders through financial discipline and exceptional management of a diversified portfolio of businesses (Thomas, 1998). The organisation function of Wesfarmers Limited is to promote ethical business activities, promote corporate social responsively, protecting the environment, protecting the needs of the employee and satisfying the needs of consumers by provision of quality food products and services (Cameron, Sayers, Sacks, & Thornton, 2015). In addition, Climate changes and resilience is the primary environmental factor that affects the operations of Wesfarmers Limited. Many parts of Australia and New Zealand are experiencing effects relating to rising temperatures, water shortages as well as increasing scarcity of food supplies. These aspects of climatic changes affect the company employees, customers, community, and economy. However, the company recognises the impact of human action toward the changing environment, the company believes that business sector in Australia and New Zealand has a role to play in mitigating the climate changes. Wesfarmers support the Australian Federal government commitment to limit the global warming between 1.5°C – 2°C (Limited, Wesfarmers Premier Coal, 2003). Next, Waste and water use is also an environmental force that affects the internal and external operations of Wesfarmers Limited. Waste affects the working condition of the company; it may lead to the outbreak of fatal diseases that will affect the employees, this may lead to bad behavior from the employees. Water use in the company is a material issue; as a result, Wesfarmers Limited has focused on the appropriate measures of using water efficiently (Champoux, 2016). Furthermore, Competition is a business factor that is considered to contribute towards encouraging business risk; it is a business environmental factor that involves the operation of different firms in the market. Competition risk influences are promoted by low quality and quantity of products. Wesfarmers Limited owns Coles supermarket, the company is facing stiff competition from other operating supermarket in the market such as Woolworth Supermarket and Aldi's (Biddle, 2016). According to the study, Aldi's rate of expansion is observed to be ramping up significantly from 2016, this will automatically escalate its market share as it inserts pressure to the margin supermarket operators in the market. Last of all, the financial risk involves those activities that originate from the financial activities of the company. Proper utilisation of financial resources demonstrates the commitment of organisational management in moving towards achieving the organisational goals and objectives. Liquidity risk is a financial risk at Wesfarmers Limited; the company has failed to focus on how to identify new investment activities. The foreign currency risk is a primary financial factor that affects Wesfarmers Limited since it operates in different markets which have many currency risks (Kalkan, 2016). The currency risk affects the company competitive approaches as well as the decisional making strategies on the target market. Wesfarmers Limited primary currency exposures involve rising from sales and purchases by an operating unit in currencies other than the Australian dollars. In conclusion, Management and business context are related aspect that contributes towards the organisational success. Decision making process and developing appropriate business strategy depends on the functions of the management in relation to the business activities that an enterprise is involves in. 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