5. Business: Motivating employees

Keystage: KS4

Subject: Business

Resource type: Lesson

Skills: Creativity

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To Stay or Not to Stay?: Students step into the role of a HR Manager at a leading accountancy firm tasked with reviewing employee satisfaction within their organisation. They have identified from the review that more must be done to retain staff and attract new employees.

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Human Resources (HR) Manager

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Curriculum Table

England: The national curriculum (England)	Human resources Students must know and understand the importance of retaining and motivating employees and how businesses achieve this, including financial and non-financial methods.
Scotland: The National 5 Business Management	Management of people – motivating and retaining How businesses minimise staff turnover. Financial methods used to motivate staff, ie payment systems — time, piece-rate pay, bonus, commission, overtime and salary. Non-financial methods used to motivate staff, eg flexible work practices (job share, flexitime, teleworking), perks, working conditions, social events.
Wales: WJEC GCSE in business specification	Quality Learners need to understand how a business achieves quality (including employing the right people, training employees and implementing quality assurance).

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