I would say that the need of the organisation, at the most basic level, is to sell products and make a profit.
Does that mean that you would sell any product to anyone who wants to buy it? Consider products like cigarettes and alcohol. What legislation affects these products?
Using these products as an example, you are balancing the organisation's needs, i.e. to sell products, against the legislation, i.e. to not sell those products to certain customers.
You could go into more detail about the benefits of balancing the organisation's needs against legislation, and the implications of not doing so. For example, what would happen if you sold those products to underage customers? Is this meeting the organisation's needs?
You might also want to talk about other needs or objectives of your organisation, such as building a good relationship with the local community, and how legislation affecting those products affects that need or objective.
An excellent answer from Mark. Another example could be health and safety legislation. Nowadays onerous health and safety rules can get in the way of some business objectives. For example if there is a broken light bulb, do everything have to stop? There is a balance here between meeting the law and running the business. Perhaps it is worth considering need for:
Risk assessment.
How you respond to incidents - reporting and recording.
Accessing expert advice from internal or external support.
This is a useful leaftlet on health and safety gone mad from the Health and Safety Executive click here
Hi elspeth, I would say that
Hi elspeth,
I would say that the need of the organisation, at the most basic level, is to sell products and make a profit.
Does that mean that you would sell any product to anyone who wants to buy it? Consider products like cigarettes and alcohol. What legislation affects these products?
Using these products as an example, you are balancing the organisation's needs, i.e. to sell products, against the legislation, i.e. to not sell those products to certain customers.
You could go into more detail about the benefits of balancing the organisation's needs against legislation, and the implications of not doing so. For example, what would happen if you sold those products to underage customers? Is this meeting the organisation's needs?
You might also want to talk about other needs or objectives of your organisation, such as building a good relationship with the local community, and how legislation affecting those products affects that need or objective.
All the best,
Matt
Thanks!!
Really helpful answers there THANK YOU!! :) i understand now!
thanks lots
elspeth.
Health and safety
Hi Elspeth
An excellent answer from Mark. Another example could be health and safety legislation. Nowadays onerous health and safety rules can get in the way of some business objectives. For example if there is a broken light bulb, do everything have to stop? There is a balance here between meeting the law and running the business. Perhaps it is worth considering need for:
This is a useful leaftlet on health and safety gone mad from the Health and Safety Executive click here
Kind regards
Tom