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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?
The output produced per worker
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What is absenteeism?
The number of workers that take days off
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What is job rotation?
Workers move around jobs in order to reduce boredom
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What is team working?
Workers are grouped together to carry out a task
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What are quality circles?
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?
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?
Surverying stakeholders for ideas, compliments, suggestions and complaints
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What is a regulator?
An external body acting as a supervisor to ensure businesses comply with relevent legislation
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What customer retention?
Custoemrs who remain loyal to specific brands and businesses
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What is bureaucracy?
Detailed procedures which have to be followed (sometimes known as: 'red tape')
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What does retail mean?
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?
- Political - Economic - Social - Technological - Legal - Environmental
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What are demographic trends?
The characteristics of a country's population
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What is whistle-blowing?
Informing on someone who is doing something wrong or illegal
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What are Porter's five forces?
- supplie power - threat of new entrants - threat of substitutes - buyer power - rivalry
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What does SWOT stand for?
- Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats
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What are the 5C's?
- company - collaborators - customers - competitors - climate
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What is a price taker?
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?
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?
Reponsive to price changes
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What is 'lateral' thinking?
Approaching subjects from alternative perspectives
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What is 'Blue Sky' thinking?
Approaching subjects with no restrictions on perspectives
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What is serendipity?
A pleasant discovery that occurs unexpectedly or by accident
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What is brand personality?
Human characteristics to which a customer can relate, especially if similar to their own
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What is a strapline?
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)?
Unsolicited and infectious marketing tactics using social media to attract interest
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What is a disposable income?
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?
- 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?
Selfless, concern for others
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What is attrition?
The rate at which employees leave a business
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What does austerity mean?
The difficult economic conditions resulting from the government putting measures in place to reduce public spending
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What does BOGOF mean?
Buy One, Get One Free
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What does business-to-business mean?
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?
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?
The total amount of capital tied up in a business at a point in time
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What are capital items?
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?
Conditions or limitations
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What is a claimant?
The person or organisation complaining that they have suffered loss or damage
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What is a contengency plan?
A back-up plan in case something goes wrong
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What is credibility?
When something or someone can be believed in and trusted
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What is a credit period?
The length of time given to customers to pay for goods or services recieved
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What is a credit rating?
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?
Putting the customer at the centre of operations
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What is delegation?
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?
an accounting technique used to spread the cost of an asset over its useful life.
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What is disposable income?
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?
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?
self-important, striving for favourable impressions, conceited.
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What does elasticity?
Responsive to price changes
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What is an expected life?
How long an asset is expected to be used within a business
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What is Expenditure?
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?
likely or probable that something will succeed.
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What are financial transactions?
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?
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?
an employment contract between employee and employer with a defined end date.
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What does formal mean?
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?
when an individual acquires company money for personal gain, through illegal actions.

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