P6 M3
Unit -1 (The Business
Environment)
BTEC National Diploma In Business Level 3
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,Unit 1: The Business Environment P6 M3
Unit 1 – Business Environment
On completion of this unit I should:
1) Know the rage of different businesses and their ownership
2) Understand how businesses are organised to achieve their purposes
3) Know the impact of the economic environment on businesses
4) Know how political, legal and social factors impact on business
Task 7:
a) Describe how political, legal and social factors are impacting upon the business
activities of the selected organisations and their stakeholders.
b) Analyse how political, legal and social factors have impacted on two contraction
organisations.
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Factors affecting business
Most successful business are well-meaning strategic management practitioners and consider
key external forces affecting the business in doing the external assessment exercise, and these
are: Political, Legal and Social factors. The scope of external assessment embraces the
analysis of opportunities and threats impacting a certain industry or business. The following
discusses the key factors covered by an external assessment:
Political Legal Social
1) County’s economy 1) Laws 1) Trends
2) Tax Rates 2) Taxation Policies 2) Tastes
3) Country’s 3) Employment 3) Environmental
relationships internal and awareness
external
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