Chapter 3: Business Administration & Job Roles

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Chapter 3: Business Administration & Job Roles
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Chapter 3: Business Administration & Job Roles
  1. Main Business Functions
    1. Human Resources (HR)
      1. Concerned with the management of people e.g hiring and firing off staff
      2. Finance Department
        1. Concerned with keeping record of the movement of money & predicting financial profits and losses
        2. Sales & Marketing
          1. Concerned with achieving the target for sales of the products or services
          2. Customer Services
            1. Concerned with keeping the customers happy
            2. Production Function
              1. Concerned with the standard and quality of products in a safe and efficient manner
              2. Research & Development
                1. Concerned with the improvement of products & services in order to survive
              3. Hierarchical Pyramid
                1. an organisational structure where there are few people at he top and more at the bottom.
                  1. Each person has clear responsibilities
                    1. People in each layer only interact with those immediately above or below their own level
                  2. Administration
                    1. The storing, processing, retrieving spreading or disseminating of information
                      1. Examples
                        1. Preparing sales figures for a meeting so decisions can be taken
                          1. Uses of information systems to store vital information
                        2. The purpose of this is to support the other business functions
                          1. This allows them to concentrate on management and decision making
                        3. Job Roles
                          1. Large organisations have a number of job roles
                            1. Examples
                              1. Managers
                                1. Responsible for the decision making in the organisation & pass instructions to the supervisors
                                2. Supervisiors
                                  1. Supervisor is to ensure that operatives or workers follow instructions and perform their tasks diligently
                                    1. Can also give basic training to workers.
                                    2. Operatives
                                      1. People in the lowest level in the pyramid and responsible for making the product or delivering the service for the public
                                3. Marketing
                                  1. Providing a product or service that a customer wants at the right time and in the right place at profit
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