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We have subdivided the modules into personal and business since this seems a logical approach. Educationalists suggest an inductive approach to education is the best one where we go from the experience of the students to the underlying principles and therefore we have put in the personal modules first.
The objective of all the modules is both to help people within schools or colleges to be faced with realistic choices which can be answered if necessary in the classroom but also to provide material which can be used by young people working on their own. Young people need to have transferable skills and some of these can be obtained by looking at the ways in which businesses approach them. It is therefore worthwhile trying to build up a portfolio of ways in which businesses have these approaches and to see which ones are effective and why, also which ones are totally misplaced.
We have subdivided the modules into personal and business since this seems a logical approach. Educationalists suggest an inductive approach to education is the best one where we go from the experience of the students to the underlying principles and therefore we have put in the personal modules first.
The objective of all the modules is both to help people within schools or colleges to be faced with realistic choices which can be answered if necessary in the classroom but also to provide material which can be used by young people working on their own. Young people need to have transferable skills and some of these can be obtained by looking at the ways in which businesses approach them. It is therefore worthwhile trying to build up a portfolio of ways in which businesses have these approaches and to see which ones are effective and why, also which ones are totally misplaced.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAuthorHouse UK
Release dateFeb 24, 2016
ISBN9781504990233
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David Spurling
David Spurling B.Sc., P.G.C.E, D.G.A, F.C.I.L.T is the founder of Learning Through Cooperation Ltd. He has taught people from more than fifty countries and was a member of the Nigerian Business Examinations council. He uses this diversity to make his books relevant. He is also a Quaker and is interested in social issues. He has taught at a wide variety of schools and colleges, including being a senior lecturer in transport economics at what is now Birmingham City University. He has been a statistics examiner for the Chartered Institute of Transport. He has been an assistant examiner with Edexcel for Labour Economics and is now currently a script marker for the Association of Business Managers and Administrators. He has had seventeen textbooks published by major publishers. These textbooks are on a range of subjects including life skills, sociology, economics, business, business calculations, accounts, and transport and road freight. He has also published a joke book. His was formerly a councillor in Southend and Swale Borough Council, as well as being a parliamentary candidate in Meriden. He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and so was Florence Nightingale, but not at the same time!
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An Introduction to the World of Work - David Spurling
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Published by AuthorHouse 02/17/2016
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Contents
Personal Modules
P1 Shopping
P2 Healthy eating
P3 Budgeting
P4 Travel
P5 Fuel Bills
P6 Patterns of expenditure
P7 Accommodation
P8 Allocation of time
P9 Personal Finance
P10 Self development
P11 Relationships
P12 Presentation skills
P13 Careers including apprenticeships
P14 Enterprise and risks
P15 Planning in an age of change
Business Modules
B1 Office work in different sectors of a business
B2 Office Planning
B3 Reception Office
B4 Telecommunications
B5 Mail
B6 Private sector organisations
B7 Business Risks
B8 Growth of organisations
B9 Production methods
B10 The Human Relations Department
B11 Accounting
B12 Finance
B13 Purchasing
B14 Marketing
B15 Distribution of goods
B16 Organisation and methods (O&M)
B17 Sources of information
B18 Business meetings
B19 Arranging visits
B20 Looking for jobs
B21 Specimen Interview with Miss Smith
Personal Modules
Business Modules
Module P1 Shopping
P1.10 Shopping
The supermarket chains
In the United Kingdom the large supermarket chains such as Sainsbury's, Tesco, Morrisons and ASDA have dominated the food market. They are not necessarily the cheapest places to buy food, despite their massive advertising and also their price comparisons with each other. Aldi and Lidl have gained ground considerably since the credit crunch from 2008 onwards. This is because they are thought to be cheaper than the others.
Other supermarkets
There are other supermarket chains including The Co-operative, which as its name suggests is owned by the customers, and also Waitrose which is owned by the workers and is part of the John Lewis group.
Waitrose has a reputation for selling good but more expensive products than other supermarkets. The idea about higher prices is not necessarily true so it is worthwhile looking at these supermarkets. Waitrose
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