AQA Business A-level theories and models

Tannenbaum Schmidt Continuum

Decision Trees

Stakeholder mapping

Market mapping

Income elasticity demand

Segmentation, targeting, positioning

7Ps of the marketing mix

Inventory control chart

SWOT analysis

Elkington's Triple Bottom Line

Carroll's Corporate Social Responsibility Pyramid

Porter's Strategies

Greiner's Model of Growth

Bartlett and Ghoshal's international, multi-domestic, transnational and global strategies

Lewin's force field analysis

Kotter and Schlesinger's reasons for resistance to change

Kotter and Schlesinger's overcoming resistance to change

Handy's culture

Hofstede's national cultures

Strategic drift

Ansoff's matrix

Caroll's pyramid

Porter's 5 forces (model of industry rivalry)

Maslow's hierachy of needs

Taylor's (scientific management)

"Workers are machines with financial needs"

Product life cycle

Boston Matrix

Vroom

Elton Mayo and Hawthorne Experiment

Workers are best motivated by;

Better communication between managers and workers

Greater managment involvement in employees working lives

Working in groups or teams

Ricardo Semler - Total delegation

Trust people to do the right thing for the company

Give them freedom and authority to do work they way they want to

Push decisions down the chain as far as possible

Price Elasticity of demand

Experience curve

Herzberg two factor theory

soft and hard HRM

Hard HRM

Treats employees simply as a resource of the business (like machinery & buildings)

Soft HRM

Treats employees as the most important resource in the business and a source of competitive advantage