BUS 001
Business and Its Environment
- Nature and purpose of business: goals, inputs and outputs, adding value, choice and opportunity cost
- Entrepreneurship, self-employment and social enterprise
- Economic sectors and the business environment
- Legal structures: sole trader, partnership, companies, co-operatives, franchises, public corporations
- Business size, small businesses and family businesses
- Business growth; local, national and multinational businesses; privatisation and nationalisation
- Stakeholders and business objectives
- Organisation structure, departmentalisation, delegation and centralisation
- Business communication