AS - Level I.C.T (Chapter 03- Business administration and job roles) Mapa Mental sobre Business Administration
and Job Roles, criado por Livv McCarthy em 17-09-2013.
Department concerned with the
management of people
in charge of hiring or firing staff and
training them
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
Concerned with keeping an accurate record
of the movement of money
Predicts financial profits and losses
SALES AND MARKETING
Concerned with achieving the target for sales or the products or services
CUSTOMER SERVICES
Customer Services are concerned with keeping
the customers happy
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Responsible for improving products and
services
Without improvement
competitors will
eventually produce
better products or give
better services and
take over their
customers
PRODUCTION FUNCTION
Only in
businesses that
make goods
Responsible for the product being
made to a standard quality
Responsible for safe and efficient products
ADMINISTRATION
Administration involves the storing,
processing, retrieving and spreading or
disseminating info
The purpose of info is to
support the business functions
in a large business each functional manager will
have administrative support to allow them to
concentrate on management and decision
making
The types of tasks completed by administrative staff include
things like preparing sales figures, for a meeting so
decisions can be made e.g new products to sell
Administrative staff will be responsible for the safe
storage of information and for keeping a backup in
cast or mistakes
expected to use
databases/info systems to
retrieve information
Administration also involves the
(disseminating) passing on of information to
those who need it
MARKETING
Providing a product or service that a customer wants at the right time and in the
right place at a profit
OPERATIVES
People at the lowest level of the
hierarchical pyramid who are
responsible for either making the
product or delivering the service for the
public
Hierarchical Pyramid
an organisational structure
where there are few people at
the top level and many more at
the bottom level. each person
has clear responsibilities and
roles