GRADE 11 BUSINESS STUDIES SUMMARY OF ANNUAL TEACHING PLAN FOR 2014 TERM WEEKS WEEK NUMBER TOPICS % CUM % ASSESSMENT INFORMAL FORMAL Data response Essay Class Test CUM No. No. of Formal Tasks 1 15/01 - 17/01 1 Influences on, and control factors relating to the business environments 3.7% 3.7% 1 1 1 3 20/01 – 24/01 1 Challenges of the business environments 3.7% 7.4% 1 1 1 6 27/01 – 31/01 1 Adapting to challenges of business environments 3.7% 11.1% 1 1 1 9 03/02 – 14/02 2 Impact and challenges of contemporary socioeconomic issues 7.4% 18.5% 2 2 2 15 Task 1: Assignment
28/10 – 29/11 Revision and End of the year examination 100% Year-end WEEK TOPIC CONTENT % CUM % ASSESSMENT RESOURCES DATE COMPLETED TERM 1 1 15/01 - 17/01 1. Influences on business environments Examination of control factors, e.g. more control over micro environment, less control over market environment and even less control over macro environment Ways to be involved in macro environment – if beneficial to business Micro environment The business mission and objectives, its management structure, its resources and its culture are primarily controlled by the enterprise’s management. Market environment The customers, suppliers, competitors, regulators and strategic 3.7% 3.7% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks/ Newspaper articles Internet Magazines Other media visual
allies and unions give rise to particular opportunities and threats. Business has no control over the factors. Macro environment Enterprise in relation to the environment, i.e. economic, and political environments 2 20/01- 24/01 2. Challenges of the business environment The challenges of the micro (internal), market and macro business environments Challenges of the micro environment (e.g. difficult employees, lack of vision and mission, lack of adequate management skills, unions, strikes and go-slows, etc.) Challenges of the market environment (e.g. competition, shortages of supply, changes in consumer behaviour, demographics and psychographics, socio-cultural factors, etc.) Challenges of the environment (e.g. changes in income levels, political changes, contemporary legal legislation, labour restrictions, micro-lending, globalisation/ international challenges, social values and demographics, socioeconomic issues, etc.) 3.7% 7.4% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks/ Newspaper articles Internet Magazines Other media
3 27/01 –31/01 3. Adapting to challenges of the business environments How a business constantly needs to adapt to the challenges of the micro (internal), market and macro business environments Ways in which a business can adapt to challenges of the macro environment, and whether this is to the benefit of the business Information management, strategic responses, mergers, takeovers, acquisitions and alliances, organisation design and flexibility, direct influence of the environment and social responsibility Lobbying, networking and power relations o Lobbying e.g. hedging against inflation, bargaining sessions between management and unions, influencing supervisory body/regulators, etc. o Networking, e.g. finding new customers etc. o Power relationships e.g. strategic alliance agreements, persuasion of large investors, company representatives’ influence, etc. 3.7% 11.1% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks/ Study Guides Newspaper articles Internet Magazines Other media 4 03/02 – 07/02 4. Contemporary The impact of contemporary issues on business operations, and their challenges; 3.7% 14.8% Informal activities ●Home activities Textbooks Newspaper articles economic
issues decisions for specific business situations The impact of contemporary socio-economic issues on business operations and productivity, e.g. income, inflation, social, cultural and demographic issues, economic crime, ethical misconduct (sexual harassment, corruption, mismanagement of funds, etc.), population growth, illiteracy, lack of skills, unavailability of natural resources, inefficiency in the use of resources, dumping, exhaustion of natural resources, piracy, strikes Formal ● Assignment Internet Magazines Other media Copies of the Companies Act 5 10/02 – 14/02 4. Contemporary issues Possible business solutions/contributions to deal with the socioeconomic issues Piracy: the nature and definition of each intellectual property right o Copyright o Patent o Trade mark Investigation of developments in industrial relations that relate to contemporary business practice o Labour strikes, go-slows and lockouts o Labour Relations Act (nature and purpose) o What is a trade union? 3.7% 18.5% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Newspaper articles Internet Magazines Other media
o History of unions o Roles of trade unions o Functions of trade unions 6 17/02 – 21/02 6. Business sectors 7. Benefit of a company over other forms of ownership The links between various primary, secondary and tertiary enterprises Examination of the links between: Primary enterprises Secondary enterprises Tertiary enterprises The benefits and challenges of establishing a company versus other forms of ownership (including taxation issues) Recap the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of the forms of ownership The benefits and challenges of establishing a company versus other forms of ownership i.e. sole trader, partnership, Close Corporation, (including taxation issues) 3.7% 22.2% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Newspaper articles Internet Magazines Other media Copies of the Companies Act 7 24/02 – 28/02 7. Benefit of a company over other forms of ownership Formation of companies The company’s charter – Memorandum of Incorporation Name of the company – incorporation and commencement of the company Prospectus 3.7% 25.9% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Newspaper articles Internet Magazines Other media Copies of the Companies Act
8 03/03 – 07/03 8. Avenues of acquiring a business Avenues of acquiring businesses (e.g. franchising, outsourcing, leasing); discuss their advantages and disadvantages as well as their contractual implications Avenues of acquiring businesses (e.g. franchising, outsourcing, leasing) Their advantages and disadvantages as well as contractual implications (e.g. royalties, legalities) 3.7% 29.6% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Newspaper articles Internet Magazines media 09 - 11 10/03 – 28/03 Revision Revision of all topics covered during the first term. Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Summary Revision exercises All material relevant to revision Formal: Controlled test 1 WEEK TOPIC CONTENT % CUM % ASSESSMENT RESOURCES DATE COMPLETED TERM 2 12 07/04– 10/04 1.Creative thinking and problem solving Application of creative thinking to address business problems and to improve business practice Creative thinking to address business problems and to improve business practice Problem-solving skills in a business context Routine vs. creative thinking, mental blocks to creativity and idea generation 3.7% 33.3% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Formal ●Written presentation Textbooks Newspaper articles Internet Magazines media Health brochures
into an action plan Magazines Other media Business plans - sample/ specimen 14 22/04 –25/04 of a business plan into an action plan Transformation of a business plan into an action plan (e.g. planning tools: Gantt charts or Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) with timelines and responsibilities, project planning) 3.7% 40.7% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Newspaper articles Internet Magazines Other media 15 05/05 – 09/05 4. Setting up/starting a business Collaboratively or independently starting a business venture based on an action plan Initiating and setting up business ventures to generate income, basing this on an action plan. Acquiring funding (Equity considering other sources of funding/capital), if needed. 3.7% 44.4% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Formal ●Project Textbooks Newspaper articles Internet Magazines media 16 12/05 –16/05 4. Setting up/starting a business Collaboratively or independently starting a business venture based on an action plan Acquiring funding (Equity capital/loans/debt, considering other sources of funding/capital), if needed. 3.7% 48.1% Informal activities ●Home activities Textbooks Newspaper articles Internet Magazines Other media
Communication policy: sales promotion, advertising, publicity and personal selling Magazines Study guides 27 18/08 – 22/08 3. Marketing function Pricing policy: importance of pricing, pricing techniques, price determination, factors influencing pricing, price adjustments Marketing in the formal and informal sectors. 3.7% 70.3% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Newspaper Articles Internet Magazines 28 25/08 – 29/08 3. Marketing function Use of technology for marketing (electronic marketing, etc.) Foreign marketing: imports and exports. Alignment of foreign marketing and the production function (e.g. systems, planning, safety, quality and costing) 3.7% 74% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Newspaper Articles Internet Magazines Other media 29 01/09– 05/09 4.Production function The aspects of the production function: systems; production planning; safety management; quality control; production costs Systems (mass, batch and job) Production planning (information about production planning and control) Production planning: planning, routing, scheduling and loading Production control: dispatching, following up, inspection and corrective action 3.7% 77.7% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Calculator Newspaper articles Internet Magazines 30 02/09– 06/09 4.Production function Safety management: knowledge about factory safety, machinery and 3.7% 81.4% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Calculator Newspaper
Occupational Health and Safety Act, Workplace Safety Policy Quality control: quality management systems (SABS), quality control bodies and policies articles Internet Magazines 31 08/09 –12/09 4.Production function Production costs: business calculations – total cost of production, unit cost of production, selling price and calculation of profit, break-even analysis 3.7% 85.1% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Calculator Newspaper articles Internet Magazines 32 - 33 15/09-03/10 Revision exercises Revise topics covered during the term. 85.1% Informal activities ●Home activities Summary notes Exercises All relevant materials for revision Formal: Controlled Test2 WEEK TOPIC CONTENT % CUM % ASSESSMENT RESOURCES DATE COMPLETED TERM 4 34 13/10– 17/10 1. Team dynamics and conflict management Description of team dynamics theories; use them to analyse specific business-based case studies Stages of team development/ building a team: o Forming stage/getting to know each other o Storming stage/true character starts to show/first round conflict 3.8% 88.9% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Newspaper articles Internet Magazines Other media
o Norming stage/settling and reconciliation o Performing stage/working as a team towards the goal Team dynamics theories o Belbin role theory role, people-oriented role, cerebral role) o Insights based on Jungian theory o MTR-I approach o Margerison-McCann profiles o Group consensus 35 20/10– 24/10 1. Team dynamics and conflict management Conflict management o Definition of conflict o Causes of conflict in the business o Definition of conflict management o Conflict management theories – apply these to both individual and group scenarios (include workplace forums, strikes, trade unions, etc.) o Conflict management skills to resolve differences in business situations (including workplace forums) o The function of workplace forums to trade unions) 3.7% 92.6% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Newspaper articles Internet Magazines Other media 36 27/10 -31/10 2. Introduction to Human Resources Human resources activities (e.g. recruitment and selection, contracts, induction, salaries, and other benefits) 3.7% 96.3% Informal ●Class activities ●Home activities Textbooks Calculator Newspaper articles Internet