Commerce Intro

Whāinga ako: Lesson Goals

To be able to define and apply appropriate business studies keywords
To explore how business decisions impact society

Kupu matua - Keywords

COMMERCE (tauhokohoko)

Employer, employee, employment, applicants, qualifications, career, branding, recruitment

What do each of these words mean?

Mahi - work

Starter

1 minute to list in your book how many business services you have learned so far today e.g. Spotify, the dairy... did you bus?

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Why do businesses exist?

This slide will take you through the different types of businesses and what they are formed for.

In groups brainstorm types of businesses for each category.

Types of Businesses

Why study business?

Businesses contribute to society by paying taxes and providing jobs for people. Understanding business will help you with a career in future, it doesn't even really matter what that career is. Even if you are not a business owner, it helps to know what structure businesses have and processes businesses go through to gain and keep customers.

How does business affect you?

Primarily business provide jobs and products for people. Without them it would be harder to get food, clothing (needs) and luxury goods (wants).

Businesses are also competing to provide these things! O

'Make or break'

At some point you have had contact with an employee at a workplace. How this person treated you or worked to meet your needs will affect how you view that business...

You will make a judgement about a shop/business based on an experience. Here is a compilation from shows/movies of 'break' situations.

Make or Break

A 'make' situation would be where someone at a workplace did something that made you feel valued as a customer and would make you return.

Can you think of an experience that was a 'make' or 'break' moment? Write down what happened in that situation.