Office Administration

Office administration is a series of management-related activities that include planning, organizing, directing, supervising, controlling, and implementing policies related to the company’s operationalization. Office administration is also related to financial planning, personnel management, and inventory as well as logistic distribution in a company.
In his book, “Principles of Management”, George Terry stated that office administration isn’t just about management. Office administration has the role of an incentive for the staff in the office administration division to implement their work goals perfectly.
There is also another opinion about office administration from Prajudi Atmosudirdjo, Director of Indonesia’s State Administration Institute. He believes that office administration is a combination of corporate management and operation management. Corporate management defines a physical office as a location consisting of buildings, personnel, equipment, and land), while operation management means all work carried out in the office.
As for office administration tasks, such as writing correspondence, inputting, archiving, and recapitulating data, receiving phone calls, planning office agendas, and managing office inventory. All of these tasks are related to operational activities within the company.