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SQA Advanced Higher Business Management

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Flashcards for SQA Advanced Higher Business Management (course code C810 77), split into the three areas of study, the external business environment, the internal business environment and evaluating business information, and then by topic in the course specification's order. Theories and models are named with what each says and its limits, and calculations come with short worked examples. The project is left out.

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What is inside (27 subdecks)

  • Evaluating business information321 cards
    • 3.1 Research techniques and referencing65 cards
    • 3.2 Force field diagram31 cards
    • 3.3 Critical path analysis40 cards
    • 3.4 Gantt chart28 cards
    • 3.5 Using analytical techniques in decision making24 cards
    • 3.6 Financial information and ratios73 cards
    • 3.7 Performance measures and annual reports26 cards
    • 3.8 Government statistics, market data and customer surveys34 cards
  • The external business environment316 cards
    • 1.1 Globalisation and the growth of multinationals46 cards
    • 1.2 Foreign direct investment and joint ventures32 cards
    • 1.3 Transfer pricing, exploitation of local resources and foreign influence34 cards
    • 1.4 Effects of multinationals on host and home countries27 cards
    • 1.5 The EU, ASEAN and China45 cards
    • 1.6 Business ethics52 cards
    • 1.7 Government influence39 cards
    • 1.8 Technological developments41 cards
  • The internal business environment454 cards
    • 2.1 Roles of management: Fayol and Mintzberg66 cards
    • 2.2 Classical management theories48 cards
    • 2.3 Human relations and neo-human relations78 cards
    • 2.4 Contingency theory30 cards
    • 2.5 Leadership63 cards
    • 2.6 Teams66 cards
    • 2.7 Managing change59 cards
    • 2.8 Diversity44 cards

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  • The view that there is no single best way to manage, and the right approach depends on the situation
    Contingency management theory
  • Globalisation
    The growing connection of economies, markets and businesses across the world, as trade barriers fall and communication and transport improve
  • A figure that an organisation tracks regularly to judge how well it is doing against its objectives
    Key performance measure (KPM)
  • Team
    A group of people working together towards a shared objective, with complementary skills
  • Approach to management that stresses that workers are motivated by social needs and good treatment as well as by pay
    Human relations theory
  • Research carried out first-hand to collect new data for a specific purpose
    Primary research
  • Emerging technology
    A new technology that is still developing and whose full effects on business are not yet known
  • Business ethics
    Morally right and sustainable actions by an organisation that are not mainly aimed at maximising profit
  • A political and economic union of European countries with a single market, whose members agree common rules and trade freely with each other
    European Union (EU)
  • A technique that maps the activities in a project, their order and their durations, to find the shortest time in which the project can be completed
    Critical path analysis (CPA)

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