All of us deal with organisations large and small every day of the year. One organisation collects the rubbish regularly, another supplies water, another runs the shops and others provide the daily necessities of life. Organisations educate children, care for the sick, serve charitable causes, and provide entertainment, car servicing, public transport, and the goods and services that people expect to be available in a modern society.

Unless you live on a desert island, you simply cannot get away from organisations.

Most of the people taking this course work for an organisation in the public or private sector of the United Kingdom’s massive economy. This is presided over, to some degree, by a government which itself is a massive organisation.