Bonuses. These aim to motivate staff and make them work harder as they could achieve more money.
Fringe benefits. These are bonuses that could include a company car for convenience (for example).
Non monetary
Job rotation. This is where employees change the job that they do over a period of time.
Employee of the month reward schemes. These aim to motivate employees by giving them recognition in the workplace.
Pricing strategies
Penetration pricing
Where a product is introduced into the market with a very low price to gain more customer interest.
Skimming
This is the opposite to penetration pricing as it used used when a product is initailly entering the market at a high cost to cause a higher demand and as time progresses, the price of the product decreases to help it become a mass-maraket product
competitive pricing
This is where a firm prices it's products similarly to similar products already on the market
Cost-plus priceing
This is where you price your product by working out how much it costs to maker and adding a percentage mark up.
Sectors
Secondary
The secondary sector manufactures goods.
Tertiary
The tertiary sector provides services such as selling goods
Primary
The primary sector produces raw materials.
Methods of production
Job
This is where the product is manufactured once at a time and are usually expensive and take a long time.
Batch
Batch flow is the mixture of flow and job production as it produces batches of products such as chocolates in different flavours.
Flow
Flow is the method of making lots of products contunuously.
Quality management
Quality control
Spotting problems before it's too late by checking products, raw materials and method of manufacture faults.
Total quality management (TQM)
TQM is where employees meet to discuss the reduction in costs by cutting out waste.
Sources of finance
Retaining profits. This can be done by putting amounts of money aside for saving towards something better for the business such as better machinery.
Shares. Shares can be sold to help the business make money, private limited companies are able to sell shares to friends and family therefore increasing the amount of shares sold and increasing profits.
Government grant. A grant is a sum of money given to a business from a government however the money must be used to create jobs or help the local community.
Business Ownership structures
Sole traders
Most small businesses are sole traders
-One owner, Unlimited liability, Work long hours, May have to sell, possessions to pay debts
Partnerships
Partnerships are not that common;
More ideas, Less work, More capital into the business, unlimited liability, more disagreements / conflict
Training
On the job training
Often taught by a colligue therefore bad working practices can be passed on.
It is cost effective as the person continues to work while training.
Off the job training
More expensive than on the job training but it is usually a higher quality
Integration
Economies of scale lead to intergration
horizontal
Horizontal integration is when businesses are at the same stage of production, advantages include that it reduces the cost of production due to economies of large-scale production. A disadvantage would be that choice is reduced therefore there is a reduced product range
Backwards vertical
Where a business takes over or merges with a supplier- and advantage would be that the business has more control over supply but a drawback would be that it could lead to a reduction in the product range therefore attracting a smaller market
Forwards vertical
Where a business takes over or merges with a business at a higher stage of production. An advantage would be that it improves job security for workers however a disadvantage would be that it could lead to higher prices or reduced choice.