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 covers:
To be able to discuss the purpose of marketing within business
The purpose of marketing within business
The importance to a business of identifying and understanding its customers, informing customers, increasing sales
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This complete lesson covers:
The impact of consumer law on business
Reputation of the business, safety and satisfactory quality of goods
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This lesson covers:
The impact of current legislation on recruitment and employment
Discrimination, employees’ right to contract, holidays, hours of work
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This lesson covers:
Different production processes and their impact on business
Job, batch, flow
The influence of technology on production and the impact on business
Automation, computers and robotics
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This lesson covers:
To be able to identify various methods of selling
To be able to describe the influence of e-commerce on business activity
To be able to discuss the importance to a business of good customer service, including after-sales service
To be able to evaluate the contribution of product knowledge and customer engagement to good customer service
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This lesson covers:
The purpose of the finance function
Provide financial information, support business planning and decision making
The influence of the finance function on business activity
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This lesson covers:
The economic climate and its impact on business
Changing levels of consumer income and employment
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
Models of organisational structure
Functional
Product based
Regional
Matrix
Influences on organisational design
authority
span
hierarchy
delegation
centralisation and decentralisation
The value of changing organisational design
How managing the human resource flow helps meet human resource objectives:
human resource plan
recruitment
training
redeployment
redundancy
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
Calculating and interpreting human resource data
Students should be able to calculate and interpret:
labour turnover
labour productivity
employee costs as percentage of turnover
labour cost per unit
The use of data for human resource decision making and planning
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
The value of setting human resource objectives
employee engagement
talent development
training
diversity
alignment of employee and employer values
number, skills and location of employees
Methods of achieving resource objectives
Soft and hard Human Resource Management (HRM)
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
Methods to improve cash flow
Assess ways of improving cash flow
Methods to improve profits and profitability
Assess ways of improving profits and profitability
Difficulties improving cash flow and profit
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
Influences on the extent and methods of employee involvement in decision making
Employee representation methods to include trade unions and works council
How to manage and improve employer – employee communications and relations
Value of good employer – employee relations
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
The benefits of motivated and engaged employees
Theories of motivation should include Taylor, Maslow and Herzberg.
How to improve employee engagement and motivation
Financial methods of motivation should include:
piece rate
commission
salary schemes
performance-related pay
Non-financial methods of motivating employees
Empowerment
Team working
Flexible working
Job enrichment
Job rotation
Influences on the choice and assessment of the effectiveness of financial and non-financial methods of motivating employees
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
How to analyse data other than financial statements to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a business
Data other than financial statements should include operations, human resource and marketing data.
Data may be analysed over time or in comparison with other businesses
The importance of core competences
Assessing short and long-term performance
The value of different measures of assessing business performance
Methods of assessing overall business performance to include:
Elkington’s Triple Bottom Line (Profit, People, Planet).
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
The impact of changes in the political and legal environment on strategic and functional decision making:
The political and legal environment should include a broad understanding of the scope and effects of law related to competition, the labour market and environmental legislation
The impact of government policy related to enterprise, the role of regulators, infrastructure, the environment and international trade
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
Porter’s five forces, how and why these might change, and the implications of these forces for strategic and functional decision making and profits
An understanding of the five forces to include:
entry threat (barriers to entry)
buyer power
supplier power
rivalry
substitute threat
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
Financial methods of assessing an investment, investment appraisal should include the calculation and interpretation of:
payback
average rate of return
net present value
Factors influencing investment decisions. Factors to include:
investment criteria
non-financial factors
risk and uncertainty
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
The distinction between management and leadership
Types of management and leadership styles and influences on these – theories:
Common leadership styles
Autocratic
Paternalistic
Democratic
Laissez-faire
The Tannenbaum and Schmidt continuum
The effectiveness of different styles of management and leadership
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
The value of decision making based on data (scientific decision making) and on intuition
Scientific decision making:
Understanding and interpreting decision trees
Calculating expected value and net gains.
Decision making:
Risks
Rewards
Uncertainty
Opportunity cost
The use and value of decision trees in decision making
Influences on decision making:
Mission
Objectives
Ethics
The external environment including competition
Resource constraints
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AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
The need to consider stakeholder needs when making decisions
Stakeholder mapping
Stakeholder power and interest
Stakeholder needs and the possible overlap and conflict of these needs
How to manage the relationship with different stakeholders
Communication
Consultation
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