Graduate Challenge: Analysis of Business Departmental Responsibilities

This report provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities of different departments within a business, including marketing, finance, operations/production, and human resources. It emphasizes the importance of these departments working collaboratively to achieve predetermined goals. The report uses examples from companies like Marks & Spencer and Coca-Cola to illustrate how each department contributes to overall business success. It highlights the interdependencies between departments, such as how the human resource department supports the marketing department. The conclusion reiterates the significance of departmental roles and teamwork in achieving organizational objectives.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
Explanation of responsibility of different organizational departments...................................................3
Importance of department working together............................................................................................4
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Several departments are present within a company which perform different role in the
attainment of predetermined goal as well as target successfully (Goodacre and et.al., 2020). The
primary objective of doing this report is to determine the role of different departments in a
company such as finance, operations or production, marketing and human resource. In addition
to this it also includes importance of these departments when they work together in a company.
Explanation of responsibility of different organizational departments
Within a company there are numbers of department who work different by performing
different role for attaining predetermined goal successfully. There are some of the important
department’s roles are given below:-
 Marketing department – This department has the responsibility of managing advertising
and promotions of products and services. This helps in managing the customer relation
and increasing brand reputation. In respect of M&S, their marketing department does
promotion through different digital media channels (Khekale, Askhedkar and Parikh,
2020). It is so because through this they able to attract more and more customers
successfully.
 Finance department – The role of this report is related to handling of funds or finance of a
company so that firm ensures that they are making profit successfully. In respect of Coca
Cola their finance department develops numbers of accounts in order to determine their
profit, assets and liabilities. It is so because through this they able to ensure that they are
earning as well as growing their business.
 Operations/ production department – This department of a company ensure that every
work of production and operations are conducted in proper manner. In respect of Coca
Cola, respective department ensure that products are manufactured with the best quality.
Moreover they also take care of operations at the ground level.
 Human resource department – The main role of this department is to hire as well as train
employees so that they help in attaining desire goal of company effectively (Richard and
et.al., 2020). In respect of ASDA their HR department hire employees according to
requirement as well as they also train them effective so they perform duties successfully.

Importance of department working together
In an organization there are several departments who perform different as well as several
roles so that they can attain their predetermined goal successfully. The main departments in a
company are finance, marketing, operations or products and human resource and these all
department work together for attaining goal successfully (Smith and et.al., 2020). In Marks and
Spencer all departments are interrelated with each other. For example at the point when activity
division needs to enlist representative they ask to human asset that will do promotion by the
showcasing office (Stone and et.al., 2020). Also these all cycle wills directed by reserves which
are allocated by money division which show fellowship of all offices are basic.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is determined that in the succession of business different
departments play major role as well as it also ensure that all the works are conducted and
accomplished in proper ways for attaining desire goal successfully. In a company, there are
different departments which work together effectively for attaining desire goal effectively.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Goodacre, S. and et.al., 2020. Characterisation of 22446 patients attending UK emergency
departments with suspected COVID-19 infection: Observational cohort study. medRxiv.
Khekale, S. N., Askhedkar, R. D. and Parikh, R. H., 2020. An Analysis for the Use of Simulation
Modeling in Reducing Patient Waiting Time in Emergency Departments (EDs) in
Hospitals. International Journal of Applied Industrial Engineering (IJAIE). 7(1). pp.52-
64.
Richard, K. R. and et.al., 2020. Predictors of Potentially Unnecessary Transfers to Pediatric
Emergency Departments. Hospital Pediatrics. 10(5). pp.424-429.
Smith, D. and et.al., 2020. Unified: understanding new information from emergency departments
involved in the San Bernardino terrorist attack. Western journal of emergency
medicine. 21(2). p.382.
Stone, T. and et.al., 2020. The introduction of a safety checklist in two UK hospital emergency
departments: A qualitative study of implementation and staff use. Journal of Clinical
Nursing. 29(7-8), pp.1267-1275.