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Social enterprise
Opening a business to help society rather than for profits
4 factors of production
Labour
Enterprise
Land
Capital
Primary sector
First stage of production-collecting raw materials
Secondary sector
Where the raw materials are made into goods.
Tertiary sector
Organisations that provide services & sell products
Inflation
The rate at which prices rise
Tall organisational structure
Narrow control with large number of hierarchy
Pro and con of tall organisational structure
Takes longer to send messages up
Smaller and more concentred span of control.
Flat organisational structure
Wide span of control
Pro and con of Flat organisational structure
Line managers will be very busy so hard to talk to
Quick upward communication.
Delayering
Removing layers (managers)
Delegation
Passing down authority to senior authority
Interest rate
Cost of borrowing or saving money as a percentage