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.
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:
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:
Influences on the mission of a business
Internal and external influences on corporate objectives and decisions
Influences on corporate objectives should include the pressures for short termism, business ownership, the external and internal environment.
The links between mission, corporate objectives and strategy
The distinction between strategy and tactics
The impact of strategic decision making on functional decision making
Internal and external influences on functional objectives and decisions
The value of SWOT analysis
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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 assess the financial performance of a business using balance sheets, income statements
financial ratios
profitability (return on capital employed)
liquidity (current ratio)
gearing
Efficiency ratios:
payables days
receivables days
inventory turnover
The value of financial ratios when assessing performance
Data may be analysed over time or in comparison with other businesses.
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (132) 3 Markets
This lesson covers:
The interaction of supply and demand
The drawing and interpretation of supply and demand diagrams to show the causes and consequences of price changes
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234 Resource Management
3 INVENTORY CONTROL
This complete lesson includes:
a) Interpretation of inventory control diagram
b) Buffer inventory
c) Implications of poor inventory control
d) Just in time (JIT)
e) Waste minimisation
f) Competitive advantage from lean production
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a) The impact of movements in exchange rates
b) Competitive advantage through:
o cost competitiveness
o differentiation
c) Skill shortages and their impact on international
competitiveness
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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a) Growth rate of the UK economy compared to emerging
economies
b) Growing economic power of countries within Asia, Africa
and other parts of the world
c) Implications of economic growth for individuals and
businesses:
o trade opportunities for businesses
o employment patterns
d) Indicators of growth:
o Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita
o literacy
o health
o Human Development Index (HDI)
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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a) Exports and imports
b) The link between business specialisation and competitive
advantage
c) Foreign direct investment (FDI) and link to business
growth
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) PESTLE (political, economic, social, technological, legal
and environmental)
b) The changing competitive environment
c) Porter’s Five Forces
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) Objectives of growth:
o to achieve economies of scale (internal and external)
o increased market power over customers and
suppliers
o increased market share and brand recognition
o increased profitability
b) Problems arising from growth:
o diseconomies of scale
o internal communication
o overtrading
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and 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
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.2.3 PROMOTION (COMPLETE LESSON) 223
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Promotion:
Appropriate promotion strategies for different market segments:
advertising
sponsorship
product trials
special offers
branding
The use of technology in promotion:
targeted advertising online,
viral advertising via social media,
e-newsletters
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235 External influences
3 THE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT
This complete lesson includes:
a) The effects on businesses of competition in terms of competitor:
• numbers
• size
• behaviour
b) Ways for a small business to compete in a competitive market
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a) Push factors:
o saturated markets
o competition
b) Pull factors:
o economies of scale
o risk spreading
c) Possibility of off-shoring and outsourcing
d) Extending the product life cycle by selling in multiple
markets
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
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
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) Survival
b) Profit maximisation
c) Other objectives:
o sales maximisation
o market share
o cost efficiency
o employee welfare
o customer satisfaction
o social objectives
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Edexcel A Level Business 3.1.2 Theories of Corporate Strategy (complete lesson)
This lesson covers:
a) Development of corporate strategy:
o Ansoff’s Matrix
o Porter’s Strategic Matrix
b) Aim of portfolio analysis
c) Achieving competitive advantage through distinctive
capabilities
d) Effect of strategic and tactical decisions on human,
physical, and financial resources
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet
a) SWOT analysis
o internal considerations: strengths and weaknesses
o external considerations: opportunities and threats
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) The difficulties in developing from an entrepreneur to a leader
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