This is Mr McGowan's blog for Standard Grade Business Management.

You will find slides, notes and other resources as well as valuable links to other websites to aid your learning.

Saturday 3 February 2007

Area of Study 1: What is business?

 

 

Foundation Level

General Level*

Credit Level*

1.1

What do

businesses do?

- goods and services

- difference between

small & large businesses

- charities

- range of goods and services

- private, public, government,

voluntary sectors

- primary, secondary, tertiary business sectors

- satisfaction of wants

- production and consumption

- creating wealth

1.2

Why do

businesses

exist?

- enterprise

- profit

- charity

- public service

- concept of entrepreneurship

- aims of business (relative to

different types of organisation) and stakeholders

- risk taking

- social costs and benefits

- economic costs and

benefits

1.3

How are

businesses

organised?

- simple organization structures

- 4 functional areas

- different organization structures

- impact of size on structure

- line relationships

- span of control

- functional relationships

- difference between authority and responsibility

 

 

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