February 2025

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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Cambrige Notes: Introduction to Shares

By |2025-02-12T09:03:28+02:00February 12th, 2025|Cambridge O Level/ IGSCE Accounts Notes, Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Cambridge IGCSE Accounting(0452)/O Level Principles of Accounts(7110) Notes: Introduction to Shares

  • This is a unit or portion of capital.
  • It represents a stake in a limited liability business.

Types/Classes of shares.

  • There are basically two types of shares:
  • Ordinary and preference shares.

Ordinary shares

  • these represent equity ownership in the business (i.e. they are owned by the owners of […]
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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: Reports

By |2025-02-12T08:55:52+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Business Studies Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Reports are an integral part of business. Image credit entrepreneur.com

ZIMSEC O Level Business Studies Notes: Leadership: Communication in Business: Reports

  • A report is an account given of a particular matter, especially in the form of an official document, after thorough investigation or consideration by an appointed person or body
  • In […]
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The recruitment process

By |2025-02-12T09:18:03+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: The recruitment process

  • Recruitment is the process of finding the best candidate for the job either from within or outside the organisation
  • The process should be carried out in a timely, efficient and effective manner
  • The recruitment process includes analyzing the requirements of a job,
  • and attracting […]
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