The Emergence of Business Administration Science
The Emergence of Business Administration Science
The history of business administration refers to managing any business in the modern economic world. Therefore, business administration is considered a modern science according to the views of many specialists in the business field…
The science of business administration undoubtedly belongs to the world of management sciences, and since the definition of management is a very broad term, business administration, too, has many definitions, but all of them may be abbreviated in the following definition:
Business administration is a set of integrated administrative procedures and policies linked to each other, and implemented within an organization or company, each department within the work environment performs its responsibilities in order to organize all operations, tasks, and activities to meet the organization's goals.
Business administration includes 5 main functions: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and finally controlling, we will dedicate to each function a single article that explains and clarifies it…
Now, let’s briefly describe these 5 functions…
Business Administration Functions
- 1. Planning
- It is the fundamental function, which is to decide beforehand, what, when, how it is to be done, and who is going to do it. It represents the future vision of the company's work, passing through each activity, operation, or decision-making that must be implemented at each stage in order to achieve short-term and long-term goals... "Planning chalks out precisely, how to achieve a specific goal"
- 2. Organizing
- It is the arrangement and assignment of tasks and activities to be performed, and the coordination of human and other resources, equipment, financial assets, policies & procedures in order to facilitate the goals set in the plan. It also includes classifying each task and assigning it to the appropriate department or employee to ensure objective implementation costs without loss or waste
- 3. Staffing
- This function is concerned with the employee. It includes employee recruitment, testing, and selection performed within an organization to fill job vacancies, in addition to training and development, managing salaries, wages, promotions ... etc. Staffing briefly helps a job seeker find a job and puts a qualified candidate in an open position for a company…
- 4. Directing
- It is a process of leading employees, instructing, inspiring, motivating, counseling, supporting, and guiding them towards the accomplishment of the organization's goals… It involves applying management strategies such as rewards and promotion and other strategies that help achieve the best performance in the company's various sectors
- 5. Controlling
- It is to follow up and monitor the progress of activities implementation stages, measure the results and evaluate the performance against the predetermined standards and criteria specified in the organizational goals. It involves detecting and correcting errors and deviations, and finding alternatives and solutions that help the organization meets its goals…
This was a shortlist for the definition of the business administration as a science and a preface to the 5 functions it governs
In the coming articles, we will cover many concepts about business and business administration
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