Functional Areas in Business Organizations

FUNCTIONAL AREAS
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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction............................................................................................................................1
2.0 Business.....................................................................................................................................1
3.0 Functional areas of business......................................................................................................1
4.0 Key functional areas of a business.............................................................................................1
5.0 Functional areas in business organizations................................................................................1
5.1 Marketing:........................................................................................................................1
5.2 Human Resource Management:.......................................................................................2
5.3 Customer Service:............................................................................................................2
5.4 Finance:............................................................................................................................2
5.5 Research and Development:.............................................................................................2
5.6 Sales:.................................................................................................................................2
6.0 Skills needed by employees work functional areas...................................................................3
6.1 Skills of Marketing employees:........................................................................................3
6.2 Skills Of Human Resource Management employees:......................................................3
6.3 Customer Service employees skills..................................................................................3
6.4 Finance employees required skills....................................................................................3
6.5 Research and Development employees skills...................................................................4
6.6 Skills of Sales employees:................................................................................................4
7.0 Conclusion.................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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Introduction
Functional areas are the various operations which is being operated in an organisation in
order to conduct the overall activities of the business and offer them a unique product to their
potential customers(Gupta, D., 2015). It is very important for every business organisation to have
the department in their operations so that they can enjoy the better working of their company.
The report is based upon the IMO electronics limited which is operated by a John and based on
the case study in which they are a little experience and just lottery bi that they decided to buy a
local company. There are 100 employees who are working in the organisation and John is aware
about the fact that he is not having much knowledge of responsibility involved in running the
business so he hired the individual in order to produce a report in the following areas.
2.0 Business
It is the separate legal entity which is owned by the individual or a group of people and
manufacture the product and services in order to satisfy the needs and wants of their potential
customers by which they can establish good brand image in the market.
3.0 Functional areas of business
Functional areas are the various unit in an organisation which are having different task to
perform such as sales production manufacturing advertising and delivering the product. The help
of functional areas, the business scan divide each task by analysing the skills and competencies
of the employees the consideration of completing them in an appropriate manner.
4.0 Key functional areas of a business.
There are various functional areas which is been operated with the consideration of
attaining effectiveness within the organisation. Various departments are human resource sales
and marketing finance, research & development and so on. These are the earth department which
co-ordinate each other in order to ensure good brand image in the market by offering quality
product to their potential customers.
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