Large-Scale Organisations.

Large-Scale Organisations.

1. Organisation; Two or more people working together to achieve an objective.

2. Charaistics; Employs 200 or more people, earns reveune in the millions, or has assests of more than $200 million.

3. Multinational Corporation; Owned and based in one country and operates in many countries throughtout the world.

4. Board of directors.

   • Managing directors.
     • Human resources.
     • Marketing.
     • Research and development.
     • Finance.
     • Operations.

5. Corporation; Shareholders and aims to make a profit.

6. Shareholders; Any person who owns shares in a company.

7. Government Business Enterprise; Government owned and operated.

8. Not-for-profit; Provide goods, services or funds to prevent particular social problems or to benefits the community.

9. Objective; Desired goal, outcome or specific results that organiations intends to achieve.

10. Vision; Organisations aspires to become.

11. Mission; Expresses why they exists, purpose, how it operates.

12. Strategies; Actions taken to achieve specific objective.

13. Gross Domestic Product; Monetary value of goods and services produced in one country in one year.

14. Internal Environment; Management policies and processes. Control over.

15. External Environment; Conditions organisation, little control.

16. Operating Environment; Skateholders, customers, suppliers, competitoes, lobby groups.

17. Lobby Groups; Trade unions/Consumer groups/Specific issue groups.

18. Macro Environment; Economy and society.

19. Positive Contributions;

    • Employment.
    • Infrastructure.
    • Income.

20. Negative Contributions;

    • Downsizing; Reduction in jobs and position.
    • Outsourcing; Contracting organisational operations to outside suppliers.

21. Performance Indicators; Profitablitiy, scales, productivity, satisfaction, turnover,

    • Benchmarking; Measuring performance against another leading organisation.

22. Social Responsibility; Obligations legal responsibilites to the wellbeing of employees, customers, shareholders, commuinity and environment.

23. Ethical Management; Abiding by moral standards, doing the 'right' thing in the interest of the stakeholders.