Unit 1 People In Business

Question 0

Why might a business weekly in please

Answer 0

A new business training employees if it owns cannot carry out all the task and Duty themselves
or not have the skills

Question 1

What is recruitment ?

Answer 1

Is the process of finding and appointing new employees

Question 2

What types of employees and write a own of a cafe need to recruit?

Answer 2

A share to put the customers meals because the owner is not skilled at cooking

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Two waiters or waitress to welcoming served a customer because that and I cannot do this in addition to buying the food and drinks and completing paperwork

Question 3

What is a full-time employee

Answer 3

Works for standard length week e.g. 30 hours each week

Question 4

What is a part-time employee

Answer 4

Works less than a standard week e.g. 22 hours each week

Question 5

What is a tempory employee

Answer 5

Works for all part time for a limited period e.g. two months

Question 6

How could the business suffer if the wrong people are recruited?

Answer 6

Customers may leave if the person appointed as an able to do the job effectively the businesses customers maybe unhappy at not receiving a high quality or service

Time and money must be spent recruiting someone else

Question 7

What does Internal recruitment mean ?

Answer 7

It takes place any job vacancies from within the existing workforce

Question 8

What does external recruitment mean?

Answer 8

Feeling a job vacancy from any suitable person not already employed by the business

Question 9

How might a business recruit internally?

Answer 9

By putting notices are in the workplace inviting suitable employees to apply for the position

Question 10

What is a personal recommendation?

Answer 10

It is when a senior employee might recommend someone for the job

Question 11

What other methods in larger businesses could be used to recruit internally?

Answer 11

Advertising on the businesses in town website or in the businesses newsletter which is given to employees

Question 12

What benefit is internal recruitment to a business

Answer 12

Candidates will have experience of the business and will be familiar with its method of working

Candidates will know many of the people who whom there will be working with

Provide employees with a chance of promotion which may help to motivate them

Question 13

What are the method of external recruitment

Answer 13

Advertising businesses advertise in newspaper magazine all radio and invite interesting people teleplay by a certain date

Job centre comport businesses in touch with all skilled unemployed workers

Employment agencies there is are privately owned businesses that help businesses to recruit employees

Question 14

What advantages does recruiting employees externally offers to the business?

Answer 14

Managers will have a wider choice of candidates and this can result in application from higher quality candidates especially if the job is advertised nationally

Businesses sometimes with external candidates in the hope that they will bring fresh ideas and enthusiasm into the business

External recruitment provides new employees with the right school is immediately however training in 16 employees can take time

Question 15

Ways of choosing employees

Answer 15

interview.
Psychometric test-this reveals the personality of a candidate for recruitment or promotion multiple-choice questions frequently used to assess peoples commitment to the job or ability to work as part of a team

Question 16

What is the definition of wages

Answer 16

Our money paid by businesses to employees in return for work and are Normally each week

Question 17

Definition of salaries our money paid by businesses to employees in return for work and I normally paid monthly

Answer 17

our money paid by businesses to employees in return for work and I normally paid monthly

Question 18

What are the three important factors that influence how much someone is paid?

Answer 18

Skills
experience
The general level of wages or salary is

Question 19

What is Monetary benefits ?

Answer 19

Additional payments made to employees on top of their wages and salaries such as bonuses

Question 20

Give an example of monetary benefit

Answer 20

Paying towards employees pensions

Profit sharing employees working in certain businesses are given a share of profits that the business makes

Question 21

What is non-monetary benefits

Answer 21

Are awards given to employees are not in monetary form such as free lunches

Question 22

What are examples of non-monetary benefits

Answer 22

Flexible hours
Free lunches
Parties and outings
Being part of a team

Question 23

Why might a business cheese to use a nonmonetary benefits?

Answer 23

Because they are less costly then paying bonuses for example

This might be important for a new business that does not have a little finance available

Question 24

What is motivation

Answer 24

A range of factors that influence people to behave in a certain way

Question 25

There are two ways a business might choose to motivate its employees?

Answer 25

Motivation from within the employee for example if the employee will work hard if they enjoy their job and therefore be happy to make every effort to do the job well

And motivation from outside the employee four example here are some external factors either the promise of a reward or the threat of a punishment

Question 26

What is motivation from within the employee

Answer 26

Motivation from within the employee for example if the employee will work hard if they enjoy their job and therefore be happy to make every effort to do the job well

Question 27

What is my invasion from outside The employee

Answer 27

And motivation from outside the employee four example here are some external factors either the promise of a reward or the threat of a punishment

Question 28

Why do people work?

Answer 28

Physiological needs eg:keeping warm , shelter , food

Safety needs : Please when security in their jobs and no they’ll will not lose their jobs and their income

Ego: employees they know that deal good at their job

Love and belonging needs: workers want to be part of a group and accepted as part of that group they want to be trusted by the people they work with and to enjoy their company on friendship

Question 29

What is the employee loyalty?

Answer 29

Employees or motivated on more likely to be loyal to the business and to remain with it even if there are tempting jobs available with other businesses if it remained
benefit for a business because it avoids the cost of advertising for new employee and possibly of training

Question 30

What are some method of motivation is by a small business?

Answer 30

Job enrichment -is it designing a job to give interesting and challenging task

Training -is giving people to try to increase their job related schools and knowledge

Authority -having power or control over something in the business

Financial reward motivation allows employees to meet their needs for items such as housing

Question 31

What is legislation ?

Answer 31

Is a set of rules that govern the way society operates at another term for laws

Question 32

What does the minimum wage mean ?

Answer 32

Is the lowest hourly wage that an employee can legally pay an employee

Question 33

What does pieceratepay mean?

Answer 33

Is the system under which employees are paid a fixed amount for each unit of output that is produced for example an apple piquant may be paid 4 pounds for each box of apples they pick

Question 34

What do Steve Jobs and meaningful small businesses?

Answer 34

That affects of minimum wage and you will pay legislation are increase the cost of production for businesses

Question 35

Remind a small business decide to employ fewer people

Answer 35

Because of the higher wage course they have to face this is more likely to happen if the employer are relatively unskilled and it is easy to use machinery in their place

Question 36

What does discrimination mean

Answer 36

Is treating one person differently from another without having a good reason to do so

Question 37

Give a few examples of discrimination laws

Answer 37

Sex discrimination businesses cannot advertise jobs for women all men specifically

Employment equality age regulations it is illegal to discriminate against the employee under the age of 6500 g of age employees cannot say that a new employees should be above or below a particular age

Question 38

How do legislation affect an area of employment of a small businesses?

Answer 38

Recruitment
 Promotion and transfers
Dismissal
Training
Pay and monetary and non monetary benefits

Question 39

What trade union?

Answer 39

Is a group of workers who act together to improve their pay and working condition

Question 40

What is a contract of employment

Answer 40

It’s a legal document starting to ours rates of pay treaties and other conditions which a person is employed

Question 41

What is an employee’s right give a few example

Answer 41

Give maternity pay and paid holidays
Allow employees to join a trade union
Provide a safe working unit ward environment

Question 42

What is that affects and businesses of health and safety law

Answer 42

Offering safety laws prevent businesses putting employees in danger and so protects the workforce and will try. Accidents happen in the workplace

Question 43

What does health and safety at cover

Answer 43

The installation and 10 little safety equipment and clothing

providing protection against dangerous substances

Writing and displaying a safety policy

giving employees sufficient breaks during the working day