Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
This lesson contains a PowerPoint and a Word worksheet. This is the copyright of Sarah Hilton at Revisionstation. Please leave a review if you get time, it is helpful for others looking for this resource.
This lesson covers the following topics:
a) Characteristics and skills required
b) Reasons why people set up businesses:
financial motives:
profit maximisation
profit satisficing
non-financial motives:
ethical stance
social entrepreneurship
independence
home working
a) Creating and setting up a business
b) Running and expanding/developing a business
c) Innovation within a business (intrapreneurship)
d) Barriers to entrepreneurship
e) Anticipating risk and uncertainty in the business environment
1.4.1
Approaches to
staffing
a) Staff as an asset; staff as a cost
b) Flexible workforce:
o multi-skilling
o part-time and temporary
o flexible hours and home working
o outsourcing
c) Distinction between dismissal and redundancy
d) Employer/employee relationships
o individual approach
o collective bargaining
1.4.2
Recruitment,
selection and
training
a) Recruitment and selection process:
o internal versus external recruitment
b) Costs of recruitment, selection and training
c) Types of training:
o induction
o on-the-job
o off-the-job
1.4.3
Organisational
design
a) Structure:
o hierarchy
o chain of command
o span of control
o centralised and decentralised
b) Types of structure:
o tall
o flat
o matrix
c) different organisational structures on business
efficiency and motivation
1.4.4
Motivation in theory
and practice
a) The importance of employee motivation to a business
b) Motivation theories:
o Taylor (scientific management)
o Mayo (human relations theory)
o Maslow (hierarchy of needs)
o Herzberg (two factor theory)
c) Financial incentives to improve employee performance:
o piecework
o commission
o bonus
o profit share
o performance-related pay
d) Non-financial techniques to improve employee
performance:
o delegation
o consultation
o empowerment
o team working
o flexible working
o job enrichment
o job rotation
o job enlargement
1.4.5
Leadership
a) Leadership:
o the distinction between management and leadership
b) Types of leadership style:
o autocratic
o paternalistic
o democratic
o laissez-faire
This complete lesson includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a student’s worksheet. Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation.
This lesson covers these topics:
a) Leadership:
the distinction between management and leadership
b) Types of leadership style:
autocratic
paternalistic
democratic
laissez-faire
**This bundle includes the following topics: **
1.2.1
Demand
a) Factors leading to a change in demand:
o changes in the prices of substitutes and
complementary goods
o changes in consumer incomes
o fashions, tastes and preferences
o advertising and branding
o demographics
o external shocks
o seasonality
1.2.2
Supply
a) Factors leading to a change in supply:
o changes in the costs of production
o introduction of new technology
o indirect taxes
o government subsidies
o external shocks
1.2.3
Markets
a) The interaction of supply and demand
b) The drawing and interpretation of supply and demand
diagrams to show the causes and consequences of price
changes
1.2.4
Price elasticity of
demand
a) Calculation of price elasticity of demand
b) Interpretation of numerical values of price elasticity of
demand
c) The factors influencing price elasticity of demand
d) The significance of price elasticity of demand to
businesses in terms of implications for pricing
e) Calculation and interpretation of the relationship
between price elasticity of demand and total revenue
1.2.5
Income elasticity of
demand
a) Calculation of income elasticity of demand
b) Interpretation of numerical values of income elasticity of
demand
c) The factors influencing income elasticity of demand
d) The significance of income elasticity of demand to
businesses
This bundle includes Teacher PowerPoints and students worksheets for every topic. These are all written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
This is a complete lesson with a Teacher PowerPoint and a Word worksheet for students. This is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation.
This lesson includes the following topics:
a) The importance of employee motivation to a business
b) Motivation theories:
Taylor (scientific management)
Mayo (human relations theory)
Maslow (hierarchy of needs)
Herzberg (two factor theory)
c) Financial incentives to improve employee performance:
piecework
commission
bonus
profit share
performance-related pay
d) Non-financial techniques to improve employee performance:
delegation
consultation
empowerment
team working
flexible working
job enrichment
job rotation
job enlargement
This is a rewritten and updated version of this popular resource, written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation.
This is a complete lesson with a teacher PowerPoint and a student worksheet and includes these topics:
a) Structure:
hierarchy
chain of command
span of control
centralised and decentralised
b) Types of structure:
tall
flat
matrix
c) Impact of different organisational structures on business efficiency and motivation
Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation, this is a complete lesson for the Edexcel A Level business course:
and it covers these topisc:
a) Recruitment and selection process:
internal versus external recruitment
b) Costs of recruitment, selection and training
c) Types of training:
induction
on-the-job
off-the-job
This is a new improved and greatly updated version with a blue front slide which replaces the version with the black front slide.
A complete lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation. This lesson includes the following topics:
a) Staff as an asset; staff as a cost
b) Flexible workforce:
multi-skilling
part-time and temporary
flexible hours and home working
outsourcing
c) Distinction between dismissal and redundancy
d) Employer/employee relationships
individual approach
collective bargaining
This is for unit 1.4.1. in Edexcel A level business
The Edexcel A level Business pre-release this year is :
music recording, distribution, and live performance industries, and the businesses operating in this market.
This is the first section of a complete teaching resource pack from Revisionstation
The topic is covers:
Students should research current trends in the consumption of recorded music
This is a complete lesson and includes a PowerPoint and a Word worksheet
This is a genuine Revisionstation resource written by Sarah Hilton
This is the blue front slide version
This is a complete lesson with a teacher PowerPoint and student worksheet
This lesson covers:
a) The product life cycle
b) Extension strategies:
product
promotion
c) Boston Matrix and the product portfolio
d) Marketing strategies appropriate for different types of market:
mass markets
niche markets
business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) marketing
e) Consumer behaviour – how businesses develop customer loyalty
This is a genuine Revisionstation resource written by Sarah Hilton
This is the blue front slide version
This is a complete lesson with a teacher PowerPoint and student worksheet
This lesson covers:
a) Distribution channels
b) Changes in distribution to reflect social trends:
online distribution
changing from product to service
This is a genuine Revisionstation resource written by Sarah Hilton
This is the blue front slide version
This is a complete lesson with a teacher PowerPoint and student worksheet
This lesson covers:
a) Types of pricing strategy:
cost plus (calculating mark-up on unit cost)
price skimming
penetration
predatory
competitive
psychological
b) Factors that determine the most appropriate pricing strategy for a particular situation:
number of USPs/amount of differentiation
price elasticity of demand
level of competition in the business environment
strength of brand
stage in the product life cycle
costs and the need to make a profit
c) Changes in pricing to reflect social trends:
online sales
price comparison sites
This is a genuine Revisionstation resource written by Sarah Hilton
This is the blue front slide version
This is a complete lesson with a teacher PowerPoint and student worksheet
This lesson covers:
a) Types of promotion
b) Types of branding
c) The benefits of strong branding:
added value
ability to charge premium prices
reduced price elasticity of demand
d) Ways to build a brand
unique selling points (USPs)/differentiation
advertising
sponsorship
the use of social media
e) Changes in branding and promotion to reflect social trends:
viral marketing
social media
emotional branding
This is a genuine Revisionstation resource written by Sarah Hilton
This is the blue front slide version
This is a complete lesson with a teacher PowerPoint and student worksheet
This lesson covers:
a) Design mix:
function
aesthetics
cost
b) Changes in the elements of the design mix to reflect social trends:
concern over resource depletion: designing for waste minimisation, re-use and recycling
ethical sourcing
This is a complete lesson with a teacher PowerPoint with all the answers and a student worksheet to accompany the lesson. This is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation. This lesson covers these topics:
a) Calculation of price elasticity of demand
b) Interpretation of numerical values of price elasticity of demand
c) The factors influencing price elasticity of demand
d) The significance of price elasticity of demand to businesses in terms of implications for pricing
e) Calculation and interpretation of the relationship between price elasticity of demand and total revenue
This complete lesson includes a worksheet and a PowerPoint and is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and includes the following topics:
a) Mass markets and niche markets:
characteristics
market size and market share
brands
b) Dynamic markets:
online retailing
how markets change
innovation and market growth
adapting to change
c) How competition affects the market
d) The difference between risk and uncertainty
This complete lesson includes a worksheet and a PowerPoint which is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation. This lesson includes the following topics:
a) Product and market orientation
b) Primary and secondary market research data
(quantitative and qualitative) used to:
identify and anticipate customer needs and wants
quantify likely demand
gain insight into consumer behaviour
c) Limitations of market research, sample size and bias
d) Use of ICT to support market research:
websites
social networking
databases
e) Market segmentation
Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business YBS11 (434) 3 / 4343 controlling MNCs
Complete lesson including a student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
Controlling MNCs - Factors to consider:
• power of MNC
• political influence
• legal control
• consumer pressure
• pressure groups
• social media
• self-regulation
