BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS Business organisations can be classified in a number of different ways The key classifications include Size often in terms of the number of people the business employs ID: 1024835
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1. Types of BusinessLesson 5
2. BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONSBusiness organisations can be classified in a number of different ways. The key classifications include:Size: often in terms of the number of people the business employs.Work Type: primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary and quinary.Industry Sector: mining, manufacturing, agricultural, construction, financial.Legal Structure (Business Ownership): sole trader, partnership, company.
3. SIZE OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISES
4. Small Business EnterprisesUsually sole trader and partnerships.Common in the following areas: farming, retailing and building, professions such as medicine, dentistry, law and accounting.Non-manufacturing firms such as retail outlets, which employ less than 20 employees.Manufacturing firms - less than 100 employees.Independently owned and managed.Small share of the marketFinanced by the owner.About 96% of businesses in Australia are small, and employ about half of the workforce.
5. Medium Business EnterprisesUsually public companies.One with 20 to 200 employees.Mainly in personal services and manufacturing.
6. Large Business EnterprisesOften public companies.One that employs more than 200 people.Found in the public sector, eg TelstraIn the private sector - two largest private enterprise companies are Coles-Myer and BHP.‘Big Business’ – that small number of companies that employ the other half of the workforce. Multinationals – based here, but operating overseas. Transnationals – internationally based and owned.
7. WORK TYPE
8. Primary SectorProvides the raw materials on which other economic activity depends Involves the exploitation of raw materials (coal mining, drilling for oil), the growth of food and textile crops, forestry, fishing and quarrying. Some of these resources are renewable, some are non-renewableInvolves low value added industries - has an environmental consequence, particular during resource exhaustion
9. Secondary SectorManufacturing - "Manufacturing has always been a necessary human activity ever since the first fashioning of a plough or spear from the branch of a tree" - Adam Smith.Adds more value by processing or both processing and combining raw materials.Capital or basic industries produce equipment for other industries.Assembly industries ('screw-driver industries')Consumer industries produce goods for direct sale to consumers.
10. Tertiary SectorService sector: produces no physical 'product'Historically the largest single group has been servants and slaves - today includes fast food operatives and geriatric health care.Not necessarily highly paid - One of major examples is Tourism.
11. Quaternary SectorOriginally Sub-set of tertiary sector - Reliance on high-skill labour.Includes wholesaling and advertising. Information production and management.
12. Quinary SectorNot widely used. Splits paid and unpaid domestic and accommodation labour from the Quaternary category. Initiated by Barry Jones (‘Sleepers Wake!’ an Australian icon).
13. SUMMARY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISES IN AUSTRALIASo a business enterprise is a “single legal entity or unit operating to satisfy the wants of consumers.”A business enterprise may be:A private enterprise owned by one or more people.More than 90% of business enterprises are privately owned.More than 95% of these are small businesses employing fewer than 20 people, eg sole traders, partnerships, companies and co-operatives.
14. A public enterprise owned and controlled by government appointeesThere are approximately 5 000 government owned business enterprises.Dominate three sectors:public administration and defencecommunication and electricitygas and water.Provide community health, education and welfare services and transport and construction.Employ more than one-quarter of our working population..
15. A foreign owned enterprise.Produce half the output of mining industry and more than a third of manufacturing.A business operating in Australia is regarded as foreign-owned if 25% of its voting shares are controlled by overseas interests and no equal or larger single shareholdings are held by an Australian.
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17. Question!Business Ownership: Private Sector - Which form of ownership is best?Refer to handout on ownership.