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Business management
12 sections available · 52 chapters available
Free Business management study notes for IB Diploma Programme (DP) - SL & HL students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Introduction to business management
Unit 1: Introduction to business management
1.1 What is a business?
1.2 Types of business entities
1.3 Business objectives
1.4 Stakeholders
1.5 Growth and evolution
1.6 Multinational companies (MNCs)
Human resource management
Finance and accounts
Unit 2: Human resource management
2.1 Introduction to human resource management
2.2 Organizational structure
2.3 Leadership and management
2.4 Motivation and demotivation
2.5 Organizational (corporate) culture (HL only)
2.6 Communication
2.7 Industrial/employee relations (HL only)
Marketing
Unit 3: Finance and accounts
3.1 Introduction to finance
3.2 Sources of finance
3.3 Costs and revenues
3.4 Final accounts
3.5 Profitability and liquidity ratio analysis
3.6 Efficiency ratio analysis (HL only)
3.7 Cash flow
3.8 Investment appraisal
3.9 Budgets (HL only)
Unit 4: Marketing
4.1 Introduction to marketing
4.2 Marketing planning
4.3 Sales forecasting (HL only)
4.4 Market research
4.5 The seven Ps of the marketing mix
4.6 International marketing (HL only)
Operations management
Unit 5: Operations management
5.1 Introduction to operations management
5.2 Operations methods
5.3 Lean production and quality management (HL only)
5.4 Location
5.5 Break-even analysis
5.6 Production planning (HL only)
5.7 Crisis management and contingency planning (HL only)
5.8 Research and development (HL only)
5.9 Management information systems (HL only)
Business management toolkit (SL and HL)
SWOT analysis
Ansoff matrix
STEEPLE analysis
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix
Business plan
Decision trees
Descriptive statistics
Circular business models
Business management toolkit (HL only)
Force field analysis (HL only)
Gantt chart (HL only)
Hofstede's cultural dimensions (HL only)
Porter's generic strategies (HL only)
Contribution (HL only)
Critical path analysis (HL only)
Simple linear regression (HL only)
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