Table of contents
April 22, 2022

Table of contents

Hi. I'm a Business teacher and I spend my free time working on this online blog/textbook for IB DP Business Management. I also record and post video classes on YouTube, post chapter summaries and notes on my Instagram, and upload extracts from my classes onto TikTok. I draw all the illustrations, write the text and edit videos myself. Enjoy!

Unit 1. Introduction to business management

  1. What is a business?
  2. Types of business entities
  3. Business objectives
  4. Stakeholders
  5. Growth and evolution
  6. Multinational companies (MNCs)

Unit 2. Human resource management

  1. Introduction to human resource management
  2. Organisational structure
  3. Leadership and management
  4. Motivation and demotivation
  5. Organisational (corporate) culture (HL only)
  6. Communication
  7. Industrial/employee relations (HL only)

Unit 3. Finance and accounts

  1. Introduction to finance
  2. Sources of finance
  3. Costs and revenues
  4. Final accounts
  5. Profitability and liquidity ratio analysis
  6. Debt/equity ratio analysis (HL only)
  7. Cash flow
  8. Investment appraisal
  9. Budgets (HL only)

Unit 4. Marketing

  1. Introduction to marketing
  2. Marketing planning
  3. Sales forecasting (HL only)
  4. Market research
  5. The seven Ps of the marketing mix
  6. International marketing (HL only)

Unit 5. Operations management

  1. Introduction to operations management
  2. Operations methods
  3. Lean production and quality management (HL only)
  4. Location
  5. Break-even analysis
  6. Production planning (HL only)
  7. Crisis management and contingency planning (HL only)
  8. Research and development (HL only)
  9. Management information systems (HL only)

Toolkit

  1. SWOT analysis
  2. Ansoff matrix
  3. STEEPLE analysis
  4. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix
  5. Business plan
  6. Decision trees
  7. Descriptive statistics
  8. Circular business models
  9. Force field analysis (HL only)
  10. Gantt chart (HL only)
  11. Hofstede’s cultural dimensions (HL only)
  12. Porter's generic strategies (HL only)
  13. Contribution (HL only)
  14. Critical path analysis (HL only)
  15. Simple linear regression (HL only)

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