AQA-GCSE BUSINESS Paper 1 Influences of operations and HRM on business activity

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GCSE
BUSINESS
Paper 1 Influences of operations and HRM on business
activity




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GCSE
BUSINESS
Paper 1 Influences of operations and HRM on business
activity

Thursday 21 May 2021 Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes
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Instructions A
 Use black ink or black ball-point pen. B
 Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
C
 Answer all questions.
 You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not TOTAL
write outside the box around each page or on blank pages.
 If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at
the end of this book. Write the question number against your
answer(s).
 Do all rough work in this answer book. Cross through any work
you do not want to be marked.

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 The marks for each question are shown in brackets.
 The maximum mark for this paper is 90.

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GCSE
BUSINESS
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activity




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Answer all questions in the spaces
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For questions with four responses, only one answer per question is allowed.

For each question completely fill in the circle alongside the appropriate answer.

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0 1
.1 Identify which of the following is a characteristic of a tall organisational
structure.
[1 mark]
A Junior employees make more decisions.

B There are few employees.

C There are many levels of the hierarchy.

D There will be a short chain of command.


0 1
.2 Which of the following describes a situation when a profit must be made?
[1 mark]

A Revenue is equal to total costs.

B Revenue is higher than fixed costs.

C Total costs are higher than revenue.

D Total costs are lower than revenue.




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0 1 .3 Which of the following is an explanation of opportunity cost?
[1 mark]

A Identifying business opportunities and bringing
together resources to meet them

B Seeing a problem with the way things are done and
thinking of a better way of doing it

C Seeing a gap in the market and calculating the cost of
entering the market

D The cost of making one choice concerning the use of limited
resources at the expense of an alternative choice


0 1
.4 Which of the following would be correct if a business decreases its span of
control?
[1 mark]
A The junior employees would have more
independence and make more decisions.

B There will be a passing down of authority to
more junior employees.

C There are less levels of hierarchy in a business’s
organisational structure.

D There would be a smaller number of people for
whom a manager is directly responsible.


0 1
.5 Which of the following describes the process of collecting and interpreting
information about a particular job?
[1 mark]

A Curriculum Vitae

B Job advert

C Job analysis

D Person specification




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