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is responsible for all the activities concerned with the employment of the
people within a business.
HRM involve a wide, ongoing debate about deferent approaches to the
management of people.
Activities within the function
1Staffing policy and planning;
2Job design and analysis;
3Recruitment and selection;
4Induction and socialization;
5Performance management-job appraisal;
6Motivation;
7Health and safety;
8Industrial relations;
9Training and development;
10- Downsizing , redundancy , dismissal;
Discipline.
Marketing:
the activities that occur between the business and its customers.
It is not just selling and advertising;
It is the process by which companies create value for customers and build
strong customer relationships in order to capture value from customers in
return
The development of the concept of marketing (Blythe, 2005):
a- Production orientation;
b- Product orientation;
c- Sales orientation;
d- Consumer orientation.
- A more recent development is social marketing, which means that marketers
should take some responsibility the needs of society at large and the
responsibility of their production activities.
Financial accounting:
is concerned with providing information to shareholders, creditors, and others
stockholders who are outside an organisation.
Activities within the function
Financial accounting: for external use:
1- External reporting.
2- Provide information for the current and potential investors.
3- Disclosure about stewardship.
4- Disclosure that facilitate public accountability .
5- Encouraging competition by making information available to competitors.
Operations:
The activities that produce the goods and/or deliver the services required by its
customers.
This function is often seen as a transformation process, changing inputs into
outputs.
Operation management objective is making sure that the processes work effectively
and efficiently.
Activities within the function
Operations management activities includes:
1- Forecasting;
2- Design;
3- Capacity planning;
4- Scheduling;
5- Processing;
6- Managing inventories;
7- Assuring quality;
8- Motivating employees; -9- Deciding where to locate facilities;
10- Supply chain management;
IM is central because:
1IM is a conscious process; it dose not just happen, but should be based on
planning.
2The purpose of IM is to assist in decision making.
3The definition of IM highlights that IM is for the benefit of all levels of a business.