The Office

Syllabus tag: KCSE | Business Studies | Form 1 | Topic 6 The Office

Lesson objectives

By the end of this topic, you should be able to:

• State the functions of an office and describe office layouts.
• Describe the office staff and their duties.
• State the personal qualities required of office staff.
• Describe reprography, filing and office technology.

Summary

The office is the information centre of a business: it receives, records, processes, stores and distributes information. Its layouts are enclosed or open plan. Reprography covers carbon copying, duplicating and photocopying, each economic at a different number of copies. Filing stores records so they can be found again.