Year 10 Business DE2 Assessment Checklist PDF
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This PDF document contains a Year 10 Business DE2 assessment checklist. It covers topics on recruitment and selection processes, training, motivation, and organizational structure. The checklist outlines key concepts and areas for students to learn in business studies, including market research methods, employee motivation, and employment law.
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# Year 10 Checklist: Business DE2 Assessment ## 2.2 Recruitment and selection process ### 2.2.1 Types of employment: * full-time * part-time * job share * casual/seasonal/temporary. ### 2.2.2 Recruitment documents: * job description * person specification * application form * curric...
# Year 10 Checklist: Business DE2 Assessment ## 2.2 Recruitment and selection process ### 2.2.1 Types of employment: * full-time * part-time * job share * casual/seasonal/temporary. ### 2.2.2 Recruitment documents: * job description * person specification * application form * curriculum vitae (CV)/résumé. ### 2.2.3 Internal and external recruitment: * job advertisement * shortlisting * interviewing. ### 2.2.4 Legal controls over employment and their effects: * equal opportunities - gender, race, disability, religion, sexual preference, age * minimum wage laws. ## 2.3 Training ### 2.3.1 Importance of training to a business and workers: * different types of training and the main purpose * induction * on-the-job * off-the-job * compliance with health and safety laws * benefits and limitations of training. ## 2.4 Motivation and rewards ### 2.4.1 The importance of motivation in the workplace: * attracting employees, retaining employees, productivity * motivational theories of Herzberg, Maslow and Taylor. ### 2.4.2 How businesses motivate employees: * financial methods: * remuneration * bonus * commission * promotion * fringe benefits * non-financial methods: * job rotation * job enrichment * autonomy. ## 2.5 Organisation structure and employees ### 2.5.1 Organisational charts for different types of business: * hierarchical and flat * centralised and decentralised. ### 2.5.2 Roles and responsibilities of employees in terms of compliance and accountability: * span of control * chain of command * delegation. ### 2.5.3 The different functional areas within a business: * human resources - workforce planning, recruitment and selection, training, health and safety, staff welfare, employment issues, industrial relations, disciplinary and grievance procedure, dismissal, unfair dismissal and redundancy * finance wages/salaries, cash-flow forecasting, budgets and accounting * marketing - market research, product planning, pricing, sales promotion, advertising, customer service, public relations, packaging and distribution * production manufacturing the product, designing new products, quality control and stock control. ## 4.1 Market research ### 4.1.1 The purpose of market research: * to identify and understand customer needs * to identify gaps in the market * to reduce risk * to inform business decisions. ### 4.1.2 Methods of market research: * primary research: * survey * questionnaire * focus group * observation * test marketing * secondary research: * internet * market reports * government reports. ### 4.1.3 The use of data in market research: * qualitative and quantitative data * the role of social media in collecting market research data * the importance of the reliability of market research data.
