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Official AQA GCSE Business 8132 content on organisational structures, recruitment, motivation and training.
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Organisational structures
Revise Organisational structures for AQA GCSE Business 8132 with case-study reasoning, key terms, calculations where relevant, stakeholder impact, and exam tech
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Revise Recruitment and selection of employees for AQA GCSE Business 8132 with case-study reasoning, key terms, calculations where relevant, stakeholder impact,
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Revise Motivating employees for AQA GCSE Business 8132 with case-study reasoning, key terms, calculations where relevant, stakeholder impact, and exam technique
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Revise Training for AQA GCSE Business 8132 with case-study reasoning, key terms, calculations where relevant, stakeholder impact, and exam technique.
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What this unit covers
- Organisational structures: Explain internal organisational structures, span of control, chain of command, delayering and delegation.
- Organisational structures: Explain how organisational structure may affect communication.
- Recruitment and selection of employees: Explain benefits of full-time and part-time employment.
- Recruitment and selection of employees: Explain the difference between part-time and full-time contracts, job share and zero-hour contracts.
- Recruitment and selection of employees: Analyse benefits of effective recruitment and selection, including productivity, quality, customer service and staff retention.
- Recruitment and selection of employees: Explain the difference between internal and external recruitment and analyse benefits and drawbacks of each.
- Motivating employees: Explain financial methods of motivation, including salary, wage, commission and profit sharing.
- Motivating employees: Explain non-financial methods of motivation, including management styles, training, greater responsibility and fringe benefits.
- Training: Evaluate which training method would be most appropriate for different businesses.
- Training: Explain benefits of training employees, including productivity, adapting to technology, motivation, retention, quality goods and customer service.