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What is cash?

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Cash is the money that the business has in cash or at the bank

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What are financial incentives?

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Creating motivation in a worker by offering money for work done

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What are fringe benefits?

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Non-financial rewards or benefits

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What are Non-financial incentives?

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Incentives that have no monetary gain involved.

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What is piecework?

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Pay for what you produce, e.g. per unit or per batch

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What is performance related pay?

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If you do your job well your pay will reflect this

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What is job enrichment?

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Increasing the degree of challenge in your job - produces the most efficent form of work for employee’s according to Haslow

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What are job rotations?

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Doing multiple jobs at one company, e.g. at a supermarket switching between shelf stacking to checkouts

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What is job enlargement?

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Giving you more work for little or no extra pay

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What are appraisals?

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A review of someones performance given by their peers

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What is autocratic management?

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One person leads and makes all of the decisions, e.g. manager makes all decisions no questions asked.

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What is democratic management?

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Everyone has a say in decisions made. Majority rule wins.

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What is laissez-faire?

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Delegative leadership, e.g. dividing workload between all of the workers. Employees are left to their tasks.

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What are inter-personal roles?

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Someone who incorporates informational and decision making roles

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What are decisional roles?

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Making decisions after looking at the benefits and potential failures.

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What is morale?

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The overall mood of the workers in the company

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What is a dismissal?

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Being sent home but your contract hasnt been terminated

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What is a job description?

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What your job entails and other important details

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Whata re job/person specifications

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What your job specifically entails

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What is redundancy?

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You are no longer needed by your employer and therefore your contract is terminated (not being fired)

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What does it mean by resignation?

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You are leaving your job

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What is Herzberg’s Two-Factor theory?

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Proposed work satisfaction and dissatisfaction arise from two different factors - work satisfaction from so-called motivating factors and work dissatisfaction from so-called hygiene factors

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What is retail sector

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Businesses that sell consumers a wide variety of goods.

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What is labour turnover?

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The number of people that leave a business as a percentage of the average number of workers in the business.

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What is labour productivity?

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The output produced per worker

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What is absenteeism?

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The number of workers that take days off

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What is job rotation?

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Workers move around jobs in order to reduce boredom

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What is team working?

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Workers are grouped together to carry out a task

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What are quality circles?

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Workers meet to discuss quality issues and are encouraged to come up with better ways of doing things

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What are market forces?

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Factors created by the economy for the demand and availability of products and services which influence costs.

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What is stakeholder feedback?

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Surverying stakeholders for ideas, compliments, suggestions and complaints

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What is a regulator?

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An external body acting as a supervisor to ensure businesses comply with relevent legislation

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What customer retention?

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Custoemrs who remain loyal to specific brands and businesses

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What is bureaucracy?

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Detailed procedures which have to be followed (sometimes known as: ‘red tape’)

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What does retail mean?

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The sale of goods usually on a small scale, directly to the public for consumption rather than resale.

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What does PESTLE?

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  • Political
  • Economic
  • Social
  • Technological
  • Legal
  • Environmental
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What are demographic trends?

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The characteristics of a country’s population

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What is whistle-blowing?

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Informing on someone who is doing something wrong or illegal

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What are Porter’s five forces?

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  • supplie power
  • threat of new entrants
  • threat of substitutes
  • buyer power
  • rivalry
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What does SWOT stand for?

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  • Strengths
  • Weaknesses
  • Opportunities
  • Threats
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What are the 5C’s?

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  • company
  • collaborators
  • customers
  • competitors
  • climate
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What is a price taker?

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This is when a company has to accept the prevailing price of a product is the wider market

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What is a freedom of entry?

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A business has freedom of choice to enter or leave the market due to an unlimited number of buyers and sellers

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What is elasticity?

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Reponsive to price changes

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What is ‘lateral’ thinking?

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Approaching subjects from alternative perspectives

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What is ‘Blue Sky’ thinking?

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Approaching subjects with no restrictions on perspectives

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What is serendipity?

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A pleasant discovery that occurs unexpectedly or by accident

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What is brand personality?

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Human characteristics to which a customer can relate, especially if similar to their own

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What is a strapline?

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A caption or heading often providing a brief and snappy overview of a product, service or news story.

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What is viral (advertising/marketing)?

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Unsolicited and infectious marketing tactics using social media to attract interest

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What is a disposable income?

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The amount of residual money available for non-essentials after buying hills and creditors, such as credit cards and store cards.

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What does AIDA stand for?

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  • Attention of the customer
  • Interest to learn more about the product
  • Desire for the product
  • Action to purchase when the oppurtunity arises
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What does altruistic mean?

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Selfless, concern for others

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What is attrition?

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The rate at which employees leave a business

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What does austerity mean?

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The difficult economic conditions resulting from the government putting measures in place to reduce public spending

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What does BOGOF mean?

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Buy One, Get One Free

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What does business-to-business mean?

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B2B refers to when one business sells to another business - for example, a stationary business selling to a firm of accountants

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What does Business-To-Consumer mean?

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B2C refers to when one business sells to an individual - for example, a stationary business selling wedding stationary to a bride and groom

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What is capital employed?

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The total amount of capital tied up in a business at a point in time

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What are capital items?

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Assets bought from capital expenditure such as: machinery and vehicles that will stay in the business for more than a year

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What is a caveat?

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Conditions or limitations

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What is a claimant?

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The person or organisation complaining that they have suffered loss or damage

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What is a contengency plan?

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A back-up plan in case something goes wrong

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What is credibility?

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When something or someone can be believed in and trusted

65
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What is a credit period?

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The length of time given to customers to pay for goods or services recieved

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What is a credit rating?

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A score given to individuals on how likely they are to repay debts based upon their previous actions

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What does customer-centric mean?

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Putting the customer at the centre of operations

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What is delegation?

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To give a task to someone else, usually a member of a team, and trust them to do it on your behalf

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What is Depreciation?

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an accounting technique used to spread the cost of an asset over its useful life.

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What is disposable income?

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the amount of residual money available for non-essentials after paying bills and creditors such as credit cards and store cards.

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What is a dividend?

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a sum of money paid regularly (usually once a year) by a company to its shareholders. The money usually comes out of profits.

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What does being Egotistic mean?

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self-important, striving for favourable impressions, conceited.

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What does elasticity?

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Responsive to price changes

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What is an expected life?

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How long an asset is expected to be used within a business

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What is Expenditure?

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the amount of money you need to cover all your expenses/outgoings, eg your mortgage and bills.

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What does feasible mean?

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likely or probable that something will succeed.

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What are financial transactions?

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actions by a business that involve money either going into or out of a business - for example, making a sale or paying a bill.

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What are fixed assets?

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items of value owned by a business that are likely to stay in the business for more than one year - for example, machinery. Also known as non-current assets.

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What is a Fixed-term contract?

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an employment contract between employee and employer with a defined end date.

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What does formal mean?

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business-like, factual, technical and professional, providing a record. It can refer to writing, such as formal written feedback.

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What is fraud?

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when an individual acquires company money for personal gain, through illegal actions.

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