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UNIT ONE SETTING UP A BUSINESS (TOTAL TIME ALLOCATION: 80 HOURS) 114 50 minute lessons
Content
Resources
WL
What is business
NOTEBOOK
What is business
BRAINSTORM
Entrepreneurialism
Entrepreneurial
characteristics?
Enterprising
people
What makes an
entrepreneur
The Apprentice
the Final click
view
CLICKVIEW
GCSE bitesize:
Business studies
2
TASK show
clickview movie
of business
nightmares
Doomed Designs
Persil what
where there
objectives?
Stakeholders of
Persil concept
map
Guidance
Approx
Hours
attracting finance.
CLICKVIEW -
Music, Mud
And Making
Money
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customer/supplier feedback
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Financial Terms.
Candidates should understand the terms:
price, sales, revenue, costs and profit and
the relationship between these. Candidates
should be able to perform simple
calculations based on these figures.
Using Cash Flow.
Candidates should be able to complete and
interpret a simple cash flow statement or
forecast. Candidates need to be able to
consider possible solutions to cash flow
problems.
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Recruitment
Candidates should understand the suitable
ways by which small businesses might
recruit employees.
Motivating Staff
benefits of good motivation
motivation methods used by small
businesses
Candidates should understand the benefits
of having well motivated staff and suitable
methods by which small businesses might
motivate their employees.
Candidates to understand the benefits to
organisations from a culture of life-long
learning
Protecting Staff through Understanding
Legislation
equal pay and minimum wage laws
employment rights
consumer protection
health and safety
Candidates to have a working knowledge of
the legal aspects of
operating a small business not the law in
detail
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type=RESOURCES&itemId=1076801242.
Practical advice from Business Link on employing different
types of worker:
www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/layer?
r.l1=1073858787&topicId=1079568262&r.s=tl.
Local newspaper advertisements, local shop window
advertisements.
Candidates may evaluate job opportunities from their own
perspective
Lots of sources for the basic process, but use some small
business examples. Useful information is available at:
http://www.hrmguide.co.uk/hrm/chap8/ch8-links.html. The
focus should be on getting the right people. There is a lot of
information on training at the Businessballs site, which also
offers hyperlinks to other useful information http://www.businessballs.com/traindev.htm
An excellent portal for this subject is a page at
Businessballs:
http://www.businessballs.com/motivation.htm
Production Methods
Service Sector
Job and batch production
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