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1.1 Nature of Business Activity

1.1 Nature of Business Activity. Functions of Business. Marketing Finance Human Resource Management Operations Management Relationships between them. Marketing. Responsible for Market research and analysis Pricing Promotion How to sell and distribute. Finance.

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1.1 Nature of Business Activity

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  1. 1.1 Nature of Business Activity

  2. Functions of Business • Marketing • Finance • Human Resource Management • Operations Management • Relationships between them

  3. Marketing Responsible for • Market research and analysis • Pricing • Promotion • How to sell and distribute

  4. Finance Monitors the flow of finance in and out of the business • Keeps and analyzes financial accounts • Provides financial information to management

  5. Human Resource Management Identifies the workforce needs of business • Recruits • Selects and trains • Creates motivational systems • Handles employment contracts • Deals with redundancy or redeployment of staff

  6. Operations Management Responsible for adequate resources being available for production • Maintains production levels • Maintains quality levels • In charge of production efficiency

  7. Business Sectors 3 types of business sectors • Primary • Secondary • Tertiary As economies develop in countries, business sectors tend to gravitate from primary to tertiary changing the economic structures of countries.

  8. Primary Sector • Extraction oriented activities Fishing, farming, oil drilling

  9. Secondary Sector • Manufacturing and processing industries Baking, clothing, construction, assembly

  10. Tertiary Sector • Service oriented industries Retailing, transportation, banking, tourism

  11. Changes in Economic Structure • Industrialization The growing importance of the secondary sector on the economy. ? When did this occur in our country ? What was the impact on our society ? What benefits have we enjoyed

  12. Did you say: • Increase standard of living • Reduced imports into our country and increased exports to other countries • More jobs • More profits to companies, so more taxes to governments • Raw materials worth more to other countries because they have been processed

  13. What are potential problems?

  14. Did you say: • Creates depopulation in rural areas as people gravitate towards jobs in manufacturing • Stresses on farming and agriculture • Difficult to find enough qualified workers • Imports may increase to satisfy needs of raw materials • Pollution

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