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Entrepreneurship (SCP) 624
Module 6--Unit 10

TIME FRAME: One week
GRADE: 11-12
CONTACT:

         MAP LEVEL: 2
12.0 BUSINESS EDUCATION

12.0.4.9.5 -- Students will incorporate appropriate leadership and supervision techniques, customer service strategies, and personal ethics standards to communicate effectively with various business constituencies.

12.0.5.9.6 -- Students will use mathematical procedures to analyze and solve business problems.

12.0.7.9.6 -- Students will develop a management plan for an entrepreneurial venture.

12.0.10.9.6 -- Students will describe human resource functions and their importance to an organization’s successful operation.

12.0 BUSINESS EDUCATION

12.0.2.9.2 -- Students will analyze the relationships between contract law, law of sales, and consumer law.

12.0.6.9.10 -- Students will use a rational decision-making process as it applies to the roles of citizens, workers, and consumers.

12.0.6.9.14 -- Students will apply a decision-making model to maximize consumer satisfaction when buying goods and services.



1. How do you hire and manage staff?
2. What constitutes discrimination when hiring/firing employees?
3. How does an employer protect himself/herself when an employee must be fired?




Unit 10
10.1 Hire Employees
10.2 Create a Compensation Package
10.3 Manage Your Staff

Additional Information
1. How does an employer protect himself when an employee must be fired?
2. How can you screen prospective employees more carefully?
3. What constitutes discrimination when hiring and firing employees.



Students in Entrepreneurship will develop the ability to:

--determine the positions a business needs,
--recruit, interview, and select an employee,
--consider alternatives to hiring permanent staff.



All students will:

--conduct a mock interview,
--conduct mock hiring,
--conduct mock firing.



Tests (Case studies)
Classwork
Projects
Homework
Research



Employment analysis: based on a given scenario, students determine the optimal number of employees to run the business.



Textbook, IDEAS IN ACTION
Workbook, accompanies IDEAS IN ACTION
Internet/Computers
Teacher-made projects
Overhead projects
Printers (color/black and white)



Parts of this unit were edited to reflect for the 2008-2009 school year to incorporate material that was viewed as necessary for students to be more successful with the Perkins testing.