Module
Business and Technology
Business and Technology
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- 01Why organisations exist
- 02Meet the stakeholders
- 03Agency and stakeholder power
- 04Politics, policy and legal authority
- 05Data protection and security
- 06The economy as a moving system
- 07Inflation, jobs, growth and policy
- 08Demand, supply and elasticity
- 09Costs and market structures
- 10Social and demographic change
- 11Technology changes the shape of work
- 12Business and the physical environment
- 13SWOT, value chains and networks
- 14Five forces and competitive pressure
- 15The organisation chart and the grapevine
- 16Choosing an organisational structure
- 17Layers, spans and shared services
- 18Decision levels and decentralisation
- 19Departments and the marketing promise
- 20Culture: the rules nobody wrote
- 21Committees that decide, advise and oversee
- 22Corporate governance in practice
- 23Social responsibility becomes operating practice
- 24Accounting connects the business
- 25What financial accounting does
- 26Management accounting, finance and treasury
- 27Internal and external audit
- 28Records, reports and professional regulation
- 29How fraud takes root
- 30Client money and money laundering
- 31Four reports tell different stories
- 32Cost schedules, budgets and variances
- 33Designing financial systems around objectives
- 34Spotting system weakness and choosing tools
- 35Internal control and internal checks
- 36General and application controls
- 37Cloud computing without the mist
- 38Automation and artificial intelligence
- 39Big data and analytics
- 40Blockchain and distributed ledgers
- 41Cybersecurity is business control
- 42Leader, manager and supervisor
- 43Fayol and Taylor
- 44Mintzberg, Drucker and managerial authority
- 45Adair, Fiedler and Bennis
- 46Leadership styles on two maps
- 47Individuals, groups and the unwritten norm
- 48From a group to a team
- 49Belbin, Tuckman and team effectiveness
- 50What makes effort worthwhile
- 51How adults learn from experience
- 52Training, development and education
- 53Performance appraisal that improves performance
- 54Time is a decision, not a storage box
- 55Technology as an effectiveness amplifier
- 56The cost of ineffectiveness
- 57Competence, CPD and a personal plan
- 58Conflict can create heat or light
- 59How messages move through organisations
- 60Information for three levels
- 61Noise, jargon and missing feedback
- 62Ethics and the public interest
- 63Values become behaviour
- 64Codes, bodies and the meaning of a profession
- 65Speaking up and reporting misconduct
- 66A corporate code people can use
- 67Threats and ethical dilemmas
- 68Safeguards and the final ethical decision
- 69Congratulations on completing the module