business function
The Role of a Manager in Functional Areas of a Business
MGT 521
March 9, 2015
The Role of a Manager in Functional Areas of a Business
The employees in a functional area of business have specific roles in the departments to further the goals of the company. The functional areas of a business are human resources, management, law, leadership, accounting, finance, research and statistics, marketing, economics, operations management, and strategic planning. A functional organization structure will group its employees by different skills to put them in the correct functional areas. Business managers perform all activities in an organization, they usually calibrate these activities by skills that the employees have to do their jobs. A manager is a person that leads, plans, organize, and control their employees. “When a company assigns specific functions to employees it will help prevent errors, reduce cost, and ensure work gets done.” (Ashe-Edmunds, 2015). Functional managers lead their departments by planning, organizing, and controlling the functional departments in a business: human resource, administration, finance, accounting, law, economics, operations, marketing, research, leadership and strategic planning.
Human resource, legal, and administration is the departments that makes sure the company stays in compliance with state and federal laws, hiring employees, to get employees proper training to do their jobs, and establishes pay scales for employees. Human resource manager keeps policies up to date and to make sure managers have the jobs proper description and compensation plans for each employee. Human resource and the administration will make sure that each manager will have opportunities for training for their employees. The human resource, legal, and administration have to keep up to date on the laws that will affect the company and its employees. The legal department will deal with all the legal issues that the human resource department
MGT 521
March 9, 2015
The Role of a Manager in Functional Areas of a Business
The employees in a functional area of business have specific roles in the departments to further the goals of the company. The functional areas of a business are human resources, management, law, leadership, accounting, finance, research and statistics, marketing, economics, operations management, and strategic planning. A functional organization structure will group its employees by different skills to put them in the correct functional areas. Business managers perform all activities in an organization, they usually calibrate these activities by skills that the employees have to do their jobs. A manager is a person that leads, plans, organize, and control their employees. “When a company assigns specific functions to employees it will help prevent errors, reduce cost, and ensure work gets done.” (Ashe-Edmunds, 2015). Functional managers lead their departments by planning, organizing, and controlling the functional departments in a business: human resource, administration, finance, accounting, law, economics, operations, marketing, research, leadership and strategic planning.
Human resource, legal, and administration is the departments that makes sure the company stays in compliance with state and federal laws, hiring employees, to get employees proper training to do their jobs, and establishes pay scales for employees. Human resource manager keeps policies up to date and to make sure managers have the jobs proper description and compensation plans for each employee. Human resource and the administration will make sure that each manager will have opportunities for training for their employees. The human resource, legal, and administration have to keep up to date on the laws that will affect the company and its employees. The legal department will deal with all the legal issues that the human resource department
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