WHAT IS BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION?
According to Graham Whitehall, administration is defined as ‘that part of the management of a business organization which seeks to implement the decisions made by top management and achieve the objectives which it has specified.’ Ideally, if administration is ‘…that part of the management…’, then it stands to mean that administration in itself is under management, as identified by Graham Whitehall.
Administration is equipped with the task of breaking down long term goals of management into short terms and also working on budgets for all the departments, recruiting competent staff on behalf of top management, coordinating work progress, controlling work performance, and reporting all operational duties back to top management.
The features of administration :
1) It is a level that seeks to execute all major decisions by management while making other minor decisions to control the workforce under them
2) It takes instructions from management to prepare department budgets for operations
3) It maintains and runs with policies set up by management.
4) It takes its authority from management to control the lower workforce
5) It is dependent on management for its purpose.
6) It works with funds and resources provided by management to achieve targets.
7) Administration seeks to achieve the workforce goals.
The Key people involved in administration include the managing director, executive directors ( full time departmental managers), and non - executive directors ( part time experts )
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