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A level Business and Economics teacher into his 8th year of teaching and examining (AQA) - advocate of active learning - activities where students have to make decisions

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A level Business and Economics teacher into his 8th year of teaching and examining (AQA) - advocate of active learning - activities where students have to make decisions
Outsourcing: Problems at Carillion - growth, diseconomies, poor management
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Outsourcing: Problems at Carillion - growth, diseconomies, poor management

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whole lesson looking at Carillion and why it failed... brief intro to get students understanding the business before an activity where students can analyse data to create an picture of the factors behind the failure of the business. Data includes financial accounts, share prices, missed objectives, bonus culture etc etc.. they can create the picture on flip chart paper. evaluation - was it bound to fail - students invites to present ideas on how they would have run it better..
Mix & Match and Multiple Choice Game Bundle
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Mix & Match and Multiple Choice Game Bundle

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2 x Mix and Match Activities 1. essay titles - match the theory to the title 2. theories and contexts/situations - match the context to the theory (year 1 theories) 3. Multiple choice Game based on Million Pound drop - makes multiple choices insightful and fun
(Business) Decisions Ice-breaker - which is the "right" decision?
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(Business) Decisions Ice-breaker - which is the "right" decision?

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Use this for the 1st lesson either for lower 6 (AS) or Upper 6 (A2) to highlight how appropriate business decisions depend on the context/situation. How in some situations one decision is appropriate but in another less so. Use as an Ice-breaker but also set the scene that context/application matter, Can also be used to highlight objectives, strategy, tactics. Can be used to highlight important skills to do well in business... application, analysis and judgment. 2 x survival situations, grids, instructions, ideas for feedback
Active learning: Budgets and Variance Analysis Lesson including lego activity
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Active learning: Budgets and Variance Analysis Lesson including lego activity

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You will need to have two sets of lego to enable tower building for this... please note sample does not show all the pages for the task structured task where students come up with plan and come up with a budget with income, costs and profit targets. Then the do the task and see what actually happens. Then can see variance in action and allows discussion of use, importance. works really really well and students love it. can take more than one lesson with the breakdown done.
Recruitment- Job description person specification
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Recruitment- Job description person specification

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A Simple powerpoint slide that can be accessed by students to drag and drop the different criteria involved in writing a job and person specification in the topic of recruitment. As simple powerpoint can be done either on a pc or ask pupils to cut out and use as a hands on activity. With feedback after from students to ascertain why they have placed the criteria where they have.
Quality Assurance Lesson: Business A Level: Active Learning
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Quality Assurance Lesson: Business A Level: Active Learning

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Full lesson based around a experiment for Quality Assurance making Tea. Works really well once mastered. bellwork about what is quality and how measured for firms before Tea in a cafe and an kineasthetic experiment before breaking it down with the pro's and evals of quality assurance processes then pros of quality before a debate if time and videos if time plenary .
Lean Production Lesson &/or Mass Customisation:  Business Alevel: Active Learning
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Lean Production Lesson &/or Mass Customisation: Business Alevel: Active Learning

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useful lesson for Lean production and also allows coverage of Mass Customisation. Use of lego game to see how they many they can make before splitting them into Kaisan groups...and look to be more innovative in your production techniques…. asked to formulate plans Ideas might include JIT, Capital intensive / CELL Production, Flow production Line, pre-fabrication of supplies, TQM/quality assurance. Mass customisation reference to the 7/8 S's. Then Q&A adv/disadv etc
Lean Production and Critical Path Analysis Bundle
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Lean Production and Critical Path Analysis Bundle

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A bundle of all the lessons on lean production - all with active activities where students need to make decisions… including quality assurance Mass customisation Kaizen and JIT Critical Path Analysis All the lesson theory notes and activities which are easily editable.