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WorksheetsHigher Business Management - People & Finance Revision
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the purpose of workforce planning?
To ensure the organisation has all vacancies within the organisation full
To ensure the organisation has the correct employees in place at the right time to meet the organisations needs
To ensure the organisation manages and repairs poor working relationships
To ensure people with new ideas are brought in to help enhance the effectiveness of the organisation
What is internal recruitment?
Recruiting using interviews only
Recruiting from outwith the organisation
Recruiting using online applications only
Recruiting from within the organisation
Which of the following tests can be used within the selection process?
Intelligence test
Medical test
Attainment test
Communication test
An advantage of a VLE is...
People may prefer face-to-face contact rather than virtual learning
It can be accessed at any time of the day in any location
A recognised qualification can be gained
Different methods of motivating staff include...
Providing fair play for the work that employees do
Offering incentives for achieving targets
Making decisions without notifying staff
Expecting staff to complete work in their own time
Maslow's hierarchy of needs states that...
If something is not satisfied then they can still move onto the next level
You must start at the top of the pyramid and work your way down
Each level must be satisfied before someone can progress to the next level
If you do not feel satisfied with your self esteem there is no way of progressing
Adam's equity theory states that...
When inputs and outputs are the same, employees will feel dissatisfied
What people put into their work should be matched equally to what they get out of it
People are demotivated when they are getting more out of their work than what they are putting in
How would you compare a Theory X manager and a Theory Y manager?
The Theory X manager believes that employees love their work whereas the Theory Y manager believes that employees try to avoid their work
The Theory X manager will delegate responsibility to their employees however the Theory Y manager makes all the decisions
The Theory X manager believes that employees have no drive or ambition and are not interested in being given responsibility whereas the Theory Y manager believes that employees work hard to achieving goals for the organisaiton
What are the 3 different types of leaders according to Lewin, Lippit and White?
Autocratic, Democratic and Laissez-faire
Autocratic, Leadership and Motivation
Democratic, Laissez-faire and Achievement
The role of finance is to...
Provide information for decision making
Forecast what might happen in the future
To motivate staff
To find out the stage of each product within its life cycle
An advantage of using a venture capitalist is...
Shareholders benefit from limited liability
Saves on having to purchase expensive equipment outright
Organisations who have a poor credit rating might be able to get finance
A cash budget is used to...
Identify the profit which has been made from the overall year
Forecast the amount of money expected to be received or paid out over a period of time
Calculate the gross and net profit
Define a 'debtor'
People who the organisation owe money to
People who owe the organisation money
Define a 'creditor'
People who owe the organisation money
People whom the organisation owes money
Define 'working capital'
How easily an organisation can pay its short term debts
Payment to shareholders for having shares in a company
Selling shares on the stock market
2 examples of an expense are...
Rent
Sales
Wages
A profitability ratio...
Measures how able the organisation is to pay its short-term debts
Measures how well the capital invested into the company is being utilised
Measures how profitable the organisation is
A Liquidity ratio...
Measures how profitable the organisation is
Measures how able the organisation is to pay its short-term debts
Measures how well the capital invested into the company is being utilised
An efficiency ratio...
Measures how profitable the organisation is
Measures how able to organisation is to pay of its short-term debts
Measures how well the capital invested into the company is being utilised
