Curriculum Outline
Year 12 |
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Autumn Half Term 1 | Autumn Half Term 2 |
Unit 1: What is business?
Understanding the nature and purpose of business Understanding different business forms
Unit 3: Decision making to improve marketing performance Setting marketing objectives Understanding markets and customers Making marketing decisions: segmentation, targeting, positioning |
Unit 1: What is business?
Understanding that businesses operate within an external environment
Unit 3: Decision making to improve marketing performance Making marketing decisions: using the marketing mix
Unit 4: Decision making to improve operation performance Setting operational objectives Analysis operational performance Making operational decisions to improve performance: increasing efficiency and productivity |
Spring Half Term 1 | Spring Half Term 2 |
Unit 2: Managers, leadership and decision making
Understanding management, leadership and decision making Understanding management decision making Understanding the role and importance of stakeholders
Unit 4: Decision making to improve operation performance Making operational decisions to improve performance: improving quality Making operational decisions to improve performance: managing inventory and supply chains |
Unit 5: Decision making to improve financial performance
Making financial decisions: sources of finance Making financial decisions: improving cash flow and profits
Unit 6: Decision making to improve human resource performance Setting HR objectives Analysing HR performance Making HR decisions: improving organizational design and managing the human resource flow Making HR decisions: improving motivation and engagement Making HR decisions: improving employer-employee relations |
Summer Half Term 1 | Summer Half Term 2 |
Unit 5: Decision making to improve financial performance
Making financial decisions: sources of finance Making financial decisions: improving cash flow and profits
Unit 6: Decision making to improve human resource performance Making HR decisions: improving motivation and engagement Making HR decisions: improving employer-employee relations |
Examination period |
Year 13 |
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Autumn Half Term 1 | Autumn Half Term 2 |
Unit 7: Analysing the strategic position of a business
Mission, corporate objectives and strategy Analysing internal position: financial ratio analysis Analysing internal position: overall position Analysing the external environment: political and legal change Analysing the external environment: economic change
Unit 8: Choosing strategic direction Strategic direction: choosing which markets to compete in and what products to offer Strategic positioning: choosing how to compete |
Unit 7: Analysing the strategic position of a business
Analysing the external environment: social and technological change Analysing the external environment: the competitive environment
Unit 10: Managing strategic change Managing change Managing organisational culture |
Spring Half Term 1 | Spring Half Term 2 |
Unit 7: Analysing the strategic position of a business
Analysing strategic options: investment appraisal
Unit 9: Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies Assessing a change in scale Assessing innovation |
Unit 9: Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies
Assessing internationalization Assessing greater use of digital technology
Unit 10: Managing strategic change Managing strategic implementation Problems with strategy and why strategy fail |
Summer Half Term 1 | Summer Half Term 2 |
Revision period | Examination period |