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Topic 1: The Role of Business
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Business
11th Grade
04/16/2013

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Business
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An organisation that attempts to satisfy the needs and wants of the community by providing goods and or services
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Inputs
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The resources (such as labour, finance and equipment) that a firm uses to create outputs
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Accountability
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The process whereby managers are answerable to particular groups affected by the activities of the business
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Ethics
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And individuals standards of behaviour or moral position; which influences the choices and decisions and defines what is right and wrong based on the values of management.
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Downsize
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To decrease the scale of operations; for example, through the reduction in the number of staff employed
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Retrenchment
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Workers are retrenched when their services are no longer needed due to business downsizing, closing or outsourcing and therefore requires fewer workers
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Redundancy
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Workers are made redundant when their labour is no longer needed. Their employment is terminated.
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Innovation
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The process of improving the features of a product
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Entrepreneur
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An individual who is willing to take a risk to implement ideas through a business
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