Large+Scale+Organisations

A Large Scale Organisation can be defined as an enterprise that employees 200 or more employees. This is how the Australian Bureau of statistic defines it. There are numerous LSO in Australia including Coles, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank, Rio Tinto, Bluescope Steel and Connex to name a few. Many of these organisations are multinational. Which means they trade and operate in several different nations.

There are certain key characteristics of a Large Scale Organisation that can be useful in deciding if a business is indeed large they are:

**Number of Employees**
This is one of the main deciders on the size of a business. 80% of the workforce is employed in a LSO. Some of the larges emloyees are Woolworths with 145,000 employees, Telstra 42 employees Qantas 3 employees. Wesfarmers the owners of Coles, and Bunnings are probably Australias largest empoloyer with 200employees See [|Wesfarmers] website

Total Assets[[image:Woolworths.png align="right"]]
This refers to the total value of what an organisation owns. An organisation is considered large if they own more that $200 in total assets.

Annual Sales Revenue
This is a measure of the sales figure for a year for the orgainsation. A LSO generally has sales well into the millions. in 2003 News Corp had the largest Annual sales revenue of $30.8 billion

Profit After Tax
Some LSO's make profits in the billions of dollars. Although this can be not the best way to measure whether a business is large or not as it depends very much on the economic climate e.g. General Motors in the US is not going to make a profit this year but is still a very large organisation.

Extent of operations
This looks at how big the LSO's market share is, how many shops/offices they have where they sell to how many countries they operate in. The larger this aspect is the larger the organisation is. ====