Management Frameworks aims to equip Learners with an understanding of management frameworks as these apply to business administration.
Main Topics of Study:
The Management Framework to Business Administration
- What are business administration and management?
- The board of directors
- Organisational values, vision, mission and strategy
- Functions within an organisation
- The 'systems' approach to organisation
- Planning-control feedback cycles
- Management and Organisations
- Understanding Management’s Context: Constraint and Challenges
Characteristic Features of Organisations
- The structure of organisations and the need for authority
- The features of bureaucratic and non-bureaucratic organisations
- Traditional principles and types of organisation
- More about systems and subsystems
The Structure of Business
- Organisational Design
- The pattern of organisations
- Business types including; sole-trader enterprises, partnerships, limited partnerships, the limited liability company, non-profit-making units (clubs & societies), public enterprises
- Public sector organisations; autonomous public corporations, nationalised industries, local government institutions, central government departments
- Managing Social Responsibility and Ethics
The Business Administrator
- Roles and responsibilities
- ~Business correspondence
- ~Organising Meetings and conferences
- ~Managing the Security aspects of business
- ~Claimants and risk management
- ~The wider organisational environment
- ~Facilities management
Example Candidate Response Booklet
Example Candidate Response (ECR) Booklets are a source of crucial information for Centres and Candidates as they use real candidate responses. We ask Senior Examiners to comment on five or more responses in terms of why the mark was awarded with commentary about how to improve the answer (if necessary).
