Business and Office Environment

Business Management has had the status of an autonomous science for a long time, yet it cannot exist in isolation. Business Management developed with various other Business Management-orientated disciplines into a science with a unique body of knowledge and professional management enabling it to manage any office environment. The original meaning of the word ‘office’ was ‘act of kindness’ or ‘service to your fellow human being’. Today the word is used to indicate a room or a building. In a very small business, the office might consist only of one room in a house, or simply a table, chair and telephone. In a large business, however, there may be many offices with a head office in a completely different building or even province