Functional Areas of Business
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Management-MGTX/521

Functional Areas of Business

Business functional areas are considered a person, small groups of persons or a department that perform a specific task in order to support the business. Each of these areas possesses specific capabilities and skills to ensure that the business activities are conduct it efficiently. Business functional areas must have a purpose and its own goal, but ultimately in support of the business. Business or organizations must have a mission and a vision. They must possess a structure and to function must have its most valuable resource, its employees. To achieve its goal must possess a person or persons with skills and capabilities that his sole purpose is to oversee the business operations.

We had learned on class a manager is someone that coordinates and oversees the work of other people, so that the business or the organization can achieve its goal. Managers are essential in any business or organization because they lead, mentor, couch, and manage the organization resources. Managers are essential to establish and implement a control and organize operation of the many businesses functional areas. They can be many functional areas in a business or in an organization, but this document will emphasize more in the functional areas of operations and logistics as well as the role and functions of the managers.

The operations department or functional area also may be known as production or distribution area. It will involve producing the product or merchandise, preparing the product for its distribution. This functional area as well as any other functional area must have a person in charge or a manager. An operations manager plays a crucial and essential part in the success of any business; he runs the daily operations of any business or organization. He