Work And Employment

Question 1

Explain work

Answer 1

Any activity that requires effort ex. Painting your own bedroom

Question 2

Explain employment

Answer 2

Employment is any work undertaken for payment ex. Painting your neighbours bedrooms for a wage

Question 3

State the rights that employees have

Answer 3

Receive a fair wage for work done
Not to be discriminated against
To be provided with a safe healthy workplace
To join a trade union
To receive statutory number of holidays

Question 4

Explain statutory

Answer 4

By law

Question 5

State the responsibilities an employees has at work

Answer 5

To work to the best of their ability
To honour any company rules or regulations
Not to reveal confidential information to people outside the business
To respect businesses property
To implement company policy at all times

Question 6

Explain a right

Answer 6

Something you are entitled to

Question 7

Explain responsibility

Answer 7

Something you are expected to do

Question 8

Briefly state the organisational structure of the workplace or the chain of command

Answer 8

1. Shareholders(owners)
2. A board of directors
3. A managing director or CEO( chief executive officer)
4. Department managers
   Ex. Production manager
   Purchasing manager
   Marketing manager
   HR manager
   Finance manager

Question 9

Explain what the role of the sharholders, board of directors and the CEO of a company is

Answer 9

Shareholders- own the business
Board of directors- policy makers
CEO - implements policy

Question 10

Give some advantages to self employment

Answer 10

You make all decisions about running the business
You can adapt working hours to meet customers needs
Keep all of the profits
Self satisfaction if the business takes off

Question 11

Give some disadvantages to self employment

Answer 11

You are likely to make wrong business decisions as you cannot be an experts in all fields of business
May lose money invested in the business
Long hours of administrative work
Unlimited liability- may have to use personal belongings as collateral
Stress

Question 12

Explain what unemployment means

Answer 12

If a person is out of work but available for work at the current wage rate

Question 13

How is the level of unemployment meausred by

Answer 13

A national survey called the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS)

Question 14

Explain what the live register is

Answer 14

A list of all the people who sign a register each week to claim social welfare

Question 15

Name five causes of unemployment

Answer 15

Structural umeployment
Cyclical unemployment 
Relocation of MNCs
Seasonal unemployment 
Technology related unemployment

Question 16

Explain how structural unemployment causes unemployment

Answer 16

When industries who were once major employers have gone into decline and are not employing people any longer

Question 17

Explain how cyclical unemployment causes unemployment

Answer 17

Temporary form of unemployment because of fall in demand during a recession

Question 18

Explain how relocation of MNCs causes unemployment

Answer 18

When multi national companies move out of a country it causes less people to be employed

Question 19

Explain how seasonal unemployment causes unemployment

Answer 19

Demand for certain goods is seasonal therefore people working in that specific industry will be unemployed during the off seasons

Question 20

Explain how technology related unemployment causes unemployment

Answer 20

This occurs when people are replaced by machines and computers in the workplace