Business studies
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- Types of Business's
- Partnerships
- Most partnerships have unlimited liability.
- Each owner is legally responsible for the other one's actions.
- Owners can have a disagreement about the direction the business should be heading
- More owners means more capital can be invested into the business
- Public Limited Companies
- Anyone can buy shares from the firm.
- Very little say per shareholder in how the firm is run.
- Someone can take over the company if they buy the shares
- More capital can easily be earned
- Sole Traders
- You are your own boss!
- You alone decide what happens to all profit.
- You have unlimited Liability.
- Work long hours, and no holiday pay.
- Private Limited Companies
- You can choose who to sell shares to.
- has to publish it's accounts every year by law.
- Franchises
- Has the right to sell another firm's products.
- The Franchise will have to pay a fee to the firm to sell their products!
- Can sell popular brands
- marketing is often already done for you by the Franchisor.
- Has the right to sell another firm's products.
- Co-opatives
- Owned by the workers
- limited liability
- can be harder to expand due to reliance on retained profit and owners capital.
- no conflict between stakeholders due to them all being the workers.
- Public Corporations
- Owned and funded by the government.
- Follow objectives set by government
- not liable at all
- Partnerships
- Business and people
- The Law and employment
- All pay must follow the minimum wage.
- Employment can not descriminate upon a person's gender, ethnicity, religion or disability
- The employment act 2002, protects employee's against unfair dismissal.
- Employees can only be made redundant for a job that no longer exists.
- New mothers are entitled to 39 weeks of paid maternity leave while fathers can take up to 2 weeks off.
- The 1961 factories act set minimum ammount of requirements of toilets, washing facilites. lighting and fire escapes
- Accident books are required to be kept and first aiders trained.
- Motivation Theory
- Training can boost motivation as it helps students become better at their jobs.
- Motivated staff can also have a low turnover rate in the business.
- The style of managment can also change the motivation of a employee.
- The Law and employment
- promotion of product
- Business and people
- The Law and employment
- All pay must follow the minimum wage.
- Employment can not descriminate upon a person's gender, ethnicity, religion or disability
- The employment act 2002, protects employee's against unfair dismissal.
- Employees can only be made redundant for a job that no longer exists.
- New mothers are entitled to 39 weeks of paid maternity leave while fathers can take up to 2 weeks off.
- The 1961 factories act set minimum ammount of requirements of toilets, washing facilites. lighting and fire escapes
- Accident books are required to be kept and first aiders trained.
- Motivation Theory
- Training can boost motivation as it helps students become better at their jobs.
- Motivated staff can also have a low turnover rate in the business.
- The style of managment can also change the motivation of a employee.
- The Law and employment
- Firms advertise for various reasons like, making consumers aware of a new product, promote brand image and remind customers of existing products
- Though advertising can be good for a firm, for example sales might increase due to it, it can also damage smaller firms and so have social costs.
- Businesses can use organisations and events to promote its products, for example sport, television and the arts all can be used to advertise products.
- There are 7 main points of sale promotion, these are Buy one get one free, discounts, competitions, free gifts, product trials, point of sale and use of credit.
- Business and people
- Types of Business's
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