The Purposes of Different Types of Business Organization

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The purposes of different types of business organization.
Business organization: A group of people organized for making profit in a collective way is known as business organization. For instance, Unilever Ltd and Lindum Group.
The purposes: Most of the business organizations are operated to make profit by proving commodities or services. It is the basic purpose of a business organization. But according to types of organizations, purposes may slightly defer. Here, I have considered three main types of business organizations and their purposes.

The public sector organizations: These types of business organizations are run and operated by the government (Tutor2u.net, 2013). Different types of taxes collected from the people are the main sources of finance of public organizations. These organizations are not profit oriented. The basic purposes are:
 To provide essential public services like school, hospitals etc.
 To ensure mass welfare.
 To protect the country from enemies.
 To increase the industrial development.
 To ensure smooth supply of necessary product.
The private sector organization: A business organization owned and conducted by private individual is called a private sector organization (Daft and Kendrick et al., 2010). This sector includes sole proprietorship, partnership, franchises, private limited companies, public limited companies etc. In this section, I have selected two organizations and presented their purposes.

Purposes of Unilever Ltd:
 Conducting operation with honesty for the betterment of the people, organization and environment.
 Creating a positive image through commercial operations, brands, voluntary contribution and various others ways. (Unilever, 2012)
 Establishing good relationship...

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