February 2025

Leadership: Introduction

By |2025-02-12T09:10:02+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Barack Obama

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Leadership: Introduction

  • Leadership is the art or process of influencing others so that they perform tasks that have been assigned to them in an efficient and effective manner
  • The others may be followers, employees or subordinates
  • The followers/subordinates/employees have to perform these […]
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Communication in Business: Notice Boards

By |2025-02-12T09:39:48+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

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ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Leadership: Communication in Business: Notice Boards

  • Is a surface intended for the posting of public messages
  • For example upcoming meetings, events, provide information, announce a sale etc
  • They are also known as bulletin boards, notice boards or pin boards or simply […]
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Human Resources Planning

By |2025-02-12T09:16:48+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Managing Human Resources: Human Resources Management: Human Resources Planning

  • Human resources planning-involves strategies relating to the acquiring/hiring, retention, utilization, improvement and retrenchment of employees within the organisation.
  • The process involves planning and anticipating the organisation’s human resources needs
  • For example on a farm there might be need for temporary/seasonal workers during harvest and […]
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Primary Research

By |2025-02-12T09:39:06+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing: Advantages and Disadvantages of Primary Research

  • Primary research has a number of advantages and disadvantages

Advantages of Primary Research

  • It is up to date
  • Produces high quality which the business can control and
  • It provides relevant information to the issue being researched at that particular moment
  • The business can control coverage of research

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Marketing: Introduction to Elasticity of Demand

By |2025-02-12T09:13:44+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Marketing:Introduction to Elasticity of Demand

  •  Elasticity of demand to which demand for a good or service varies with its price
  • It is a measure of how sensitive or how responsive is demand to changes in the price of a product
  • An elastic product is a product whose demand is sensitive or responsive to […]
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Methods of controlling quality

By |2025-02-12T09:32:39+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

  • Quality is fitness for a particular purpose
  • Quality means the produced product meets customer expectations
  • Various methods are used by businesses to achieve and maintain quality
  • These methods include:

Quality Control

  • Quality control is the process of checking quality at the end of the production line to ensure that it meets set benchmarks and standards

Quality Assurance

  • is a more comprehensive […]
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Introduction to break even analysis

By |2025-02-12T09:17:47+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Business Finance and Accounting: Introduction to break even analysis

  • It is a simple decision making aid used to discover the level of output/activity that is required before profits are made
  • It can also be used to discover the level of activity/output required to achieve a set level of profits
  • Break even analysis is […]
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Free Market Economy

By |2025-02-12T09:12:19+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Communication: Free Market Economy

Characteristics/Features

• All the resources (factors of production) are owned by private individuals.
• Profit is the main motive of all business.
• There is little or no government interference in business activities.
• Producers are free to produce how much they want, for whomever they want.
• Consumers are free […]

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