Role of Support Infrastructure

1. Role of Support Infrastructure
Servicesand suppliesneededtosustainan organizationin itsday to dayoperations,suchas
communications,labour, power,transport, water.
Services- Intangibleproducts such as accounting,banking,cleaning, consultancy,education,insurance,
expertise, medical treatment, or transportation.
Supplies- General purpose consumableitems which commonly have a shorter lifespan in use than equipment
and machines,and which are stocked for recurringuse.
Organization - A social unitof people that is structured and managed to meet a need or to pursuecollective
goals.All organizationshavea management structure that determines relationships between the different
activities and the members, and subdivides and assigns roles,responsibilities,and authority to carry out
different tasks.
Communications -
All means of symbolic or verbal communication(newspapers, mail, email, telephones, television, radio, etc.)
that people and machines use to make contact and share information.
Labour –
The aggregate of all human physical and mental effort used in creation of goods and services.
Labour is a primary factor of production.The sizeof a nation's labour force is determined by the sizeof its adult
population,and the extent to which the adults areeither working or areprepared to offer their labour
for wages.
Power-
1.Ability to causeor prevent an action,make things happen; the discretion to act or not act. Oppositeof
disability,itdiffers froma rightin that ithas no accompanyingduties.
2. Law: (1) An instrument transferringor vesting legal authorization.(2) The ability conferred on a person by
lawto determine and alter (by will) the rights,duties, liabilities,and other legal relations,of himself or others.
Transport-
All means of transport (roads, rails, rivers, canals, air, sea) that people use to trade or make
physical contact with each other.