Managing Change | Edexcel A-Level Business (9BS0)
Managing Change
- 87 questions
- 3 subtopics
- Theme 3: business decisions and strategy
- Paper 2 and Paper 3
Managing change closes Theme 3.
It covers what forces a business to change, what change does to its people and its competitiveness, why some organisations manage it better than others, and how a business prepares for events it cannot predict.
Sample questions from Managing Change
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Causes and effects of change
How might changes in trade regulations affect a business?
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Changes in trade regulations can affect import/export costs, market access, supply chain arrangements, and competitive positioning, forcing businesses to adapt their operations and strategies. -
Causes and effects of change
How can change affect a business's cash flow?
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Change can affect cash flow through timing differences between investment outflows and revenue inflows, or through altered working capital requirements. -
Key factors in change
Explain why larger organisations face greater challenges when managing change.
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They have more employees to communicate with, more layers of hierarchy creating communication barriers, and greater potential for resistance across the workforce. -
Key factors in change
How does education and communication help overcome resistance to change?
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By explaining the reasons for change to employees, it reduces fear and misunderstanding about what the change involves. -
Scenario planning
What human resource-related risk must businesses identify through risk assessment?
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Loss of key staff. -
Scenario planning
Define succession planning.
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Succession planning is a risk mitigation strategy that prepares for the replacement of key personnel to maintain organisational stability.
The 3 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Causes and effects of change | Internal causes such as growth, retrenchment and poor performance, external causes across the PESTLE factors, and the effects on competitiveness and staff. | 50 |
| Key factors in change | Organisational culture and Handy’s power, role, task and person cultures, the size of the organisation, the speed of change, the causes of resistance, and Kotter and Schlesinger’s six methods of managing resistance to change. | 25 |
| Scenario planning | Risk assessment and mitigation, business continuity, succession planning, and preparing for natural disasters and other events outside a business's control. | 12 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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