Introduction to Management: Business Functions, Structure, and HR

This report provides an overview of management structures and business functions within an organization. It discusses various organizational structures like hierarchical and functional, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. The report also details different business functions such as production, HR, and finance, emphasizing their roles and responsibilities. Furthermore, it examines the marketing function and its interrelation with other functions, along with various management functions like planning, organizing, staffing, and controlling. The role of HR in talent management, including recruitment, reward distribution, and training, is explored, as well as the impact of organizational culture on business success. The report concludes that effective management of organizational structure, business functions, and talent, along with a positive organizational culture, are crucial for achieving organizational goals.

Introduction to
management

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Management structure and business functions............................................................................3
The marketing function and its relation to business success.......................................................4
Management function and how they manage a business............................................................4
Talent management and organisational culture...........................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
Management is the process of arranging human resources effectively and efficiently in
such a away which will help the organisation to gain maximum profit. There are various ways by
which a organisation can manage their tasks and people appropriately. Making various kinds of
departments and sub sections related to their specialization of employees will help the company
to manage their task effectively (Cross Walker, 2020). There are various departments like
marketing department, finance department, HR department and many others which help the
organisation to divide their tasks according to their requirements. The following report covers
management structure and business functions, marketing function and relation to business
success, management function and how they manage a business and at the end this report will
ends with talent management and organisational culture.
Main Body
Management structure and business functions
Organisational structure will define that who will report to whom and who will order to
whom within an organisation. There are various kinds of organisational structure which are
mentioned below-
Hierarchical organisational structure- This is the organisational structure where the
division of power and authority is shared from top-to- down level which means the people
having higher position in the organisation will gain higher authority and vice versa. The
advantage of this structure is that it help the employees to identify their needs and
responsibilities appropriately (Gaspary, Moura and Wegner, 2020). Disadvantage of this
organisational structure is that it slower down the innovation activities due to increase in
autocratic leadership in the organisation.
Functional organisational structure- Here, the authority and power is shared from top-
to down- structure but here, employees are arranged according to their specialisation which
means marketing specialist employees are providing authority related to marketing activities.
They are assigned a departmental manager to manage their employees. This structure have the
advantage of allowing employees to focus on their roles and responsibilities which they will well
known by this structure. On the other hand, disadvantage of this organisational structure is that it
create silos in the organisation.

There are different business functions and each business function have different responsibilities
and they are discussed below-
Production function- The main responsibility of this function in the organisation is to
produce goods and services according to the requirements and needs of the customers (Wangui,
Muhoho and Kahuthia, 2021). They are responsible to convert raw material into finished goods
to serve in the market.
HR function- This business function is responsible for managing the manpower of
company effectively so that they will achieve organisational goal effectively.
Accounting and Finance function- It is the organisational function which is responsible
for managing accounts of the company by preparing balance sheet, income statement and many
others. They are also responsible for making budgets for different departments.
The marketing function and its relation to business success
Marketing works with other business functions in such a way which will help the
company to gain higher profit. The interrelationship between marketing function with other
functions are mentioned below-
Marketing function with Production function- Marketing function is responsible to
collect marketing data such as customers needs, wants, preferences and many others (Nafisa and
et. al., 2019) (Moellering, 2019). They convey this information to production function which are
responsible to produce goods and services. Marketing function collect the information and
convey it to production function so that they will produce their goods according to needs and
wants of customers.
Marketing function with sales function- marketing function will collect the information
like customers influencing factors, their preferences and many others and they convey this to
sales function which use those factors in influencing customers to purchase the products which
are conveyed by marketing department.
Marketing function with HR function- Marketing function is also responsible helping
HR function to make strategies (Assunção and et. al., 2019). They help HR function by analysing
them customers needs and wants and then HR department set target for their employees
accordingly.
Management function and how they manage a business
There are different management functions which are mentioned below-

Planning function- This management function is responsible for making effective
planning for business that what tasks are required to perform at what sequence and how a
organisation will achieve their aims and objectives.
Organising function- This is the management function which help the company to
manage their required resources well and decide job roles and duties within each department.
Here, company will analyse where they will find their resources and how they can utilize their
resources in best manner.
Staffing function- This management function is responsible for managing employees
that which task is performed by whom at what kind of responsibilities (Teague and Barnes,
2017). Here, companies hire employees according to their jobs requirement and skills and
expertise of employees.
Controlling function- Here, company makes sure that their actual performance of
organisation will matched to planned performance. Here, managers measure the performance of
employees and make corrective actions in case they find any gap between their planned
performance and actual performance.
These management functions are interrelated with each other appropriately and few of the
examples are mentioned below-
Planning function and controlling function- They are interlinked with each other,
planning function include to set targets for the company and controlling function measure the
actual performance of company with those set targets which are made in planning function.
Planning function and staffing function- planning function will decide that how much
employees are required within a company and what kind of jobs and roles will be divided to
different manpower (Meyers and et. al., 2020). Roles and responsibilities are also decided in
planning function which help the manager to hire employees according to mentioned roles and
responsibilities for organisational success. Hence, staffing function of management become
successful because of appropriate planning function.
Talent management and organisational culture
Role of HR in relation to talent management-
Human Resource department is responsible for managing manpower of a company in
such a way which will help them to achieve the objectives of their organisation. Few of the HR

management practices will help to manage talent of the organisation and these HR practices are
mentioned below-
Recruitment and selection- HR manager focuses to recruit and hire those candidates
only which are having best skills and experience as according to the requirement of vacant job
roles. Hiring talented employees and offering them the task related to their specialization will
help the company to maintain their talented employees in the organisation for longer period of
time.
Reward distribution- Most of the companies distribute monetary and non-monetary
award to those employees who are performing well in the organisation (Harsch and Festing,
2020). This will help to motivate employees to perform better and achieve their tasks
appropriately. Hence, the better engagement of employees in the work will help the companies to
manage their talented employees effectively.
Training and development- Training will help the company to enhance the skills of
employees and help them to show appropriate direction for achieving their task goals. On the
other hand, development programmes of a company will help to promote those employees which
are performing well in the company. Hence, due to professional development, employees will get
motivated and stay in the organisation for longer period of time. Hence, this is how the
company's manage their talented employees and influence them to stay in the organisation for
longer period of their working life.
Organisational culture and their impact upon organisation success-
Organisational culture is defined as the employees practices, their beliefs, values, way of
interaction within the company and many others (Cross Walker, 2020). It is essential for the
organisation to have positive organisational culture which means where employees work with
each other effectively and they communicate with each others to clear their doubts and reduce
conflicts. Hence, the organisation culture which is having effective communication process will
gain success in achieving their goals. The positive organisational culture which where employees
share their thoughts and ideas clearly with each other will gain a appropriate direction of
performing their task. Hence, organisational productivity and profitability will increase due to
positive organisational culture.

Conclusion
From the above information it is concluded that there are various kinds of organisational
structure which are having advantages and disadvantages and companies are required to analyse
which organisational structure will help them to manage their employees perfectly and further
help to achieve their organisational goal. There are various business functions such as marketing
function, HR function and many others. There are various kinds of management functions like
planning, staffing, controlling and many others which are interlinked with each other to achieve
their organisational goal. It is also concluded that HR department is one of the most important
department within an organisation to manage their employees and tasks well. A positive
organisational culture will help the company to become successful.

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