Business functions refer to all the various activities carried out by a business as it seeks to meet its goals and provide its goods or services to the public. Business functions are generally performed by specific departments that are each devoted to a particular function. Business functions common to most companies include governance (management), finance (accounting, payroll, budgeting, audits), marketing (pricing, promotions, and sales), production (manufacturing), human resources (hiring and employee relations), customer service (customer relations), research and development (product and service improvement), information technology (computer management), and quality control (product testing and problem solving).
All of these functions must work together if a business is to be successful. The best way to illustrate this claim to think about a couple scenarios in which a breakdown occurs in one function or another that affects the entire company. A slowdown in production might, for...
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