to those who use Essential VCE Business Management by Cambridge

[Jason12]

There is 2 chapters in the textbook relating to social responsibility. Chapter 12 (chapter before change management) and 14 which is corporate social responsibility and ethics. Neither of these chapters were covered in class in my school but would anyone recommend reading and making notes on these chapters in preparation for the exam? Chapter 14 is a change issue so I'm not sure but chapter 12 doesn't appear as its own Area of Study on the Study design. Should I study these 2 chapters anyway?

[Damoz.G]

Yes, your school would have covered them across the whole year which is probably why your school didn't teach it as one topic.

However, it is useful to read those chapters because there is always a question on Ethics in your sacs and on the exam.

[lala1911]

No we skipped 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18.

Social/Ethical questions will always appear on SACs and Exams...

[Checkmate]

The stuff in chapter 12 is just ethical/social stuff in general that you will need and should take a read of. For chapters 14~18, they are just the change issues like you said and CSR in 14 is talking about something separate from chapter 12 so you will only need that chapter if the change issue you did was CSR.

[Jason12]

Okay thanks for the replies but do we also need to know:

 lean manufacturing, closed/virtual factory and methods of production (mass customisation, batch production etc.) because I'm not sure. We kinda skipped over this is class too..

[Damoz.G]

Okay thanks for the replies but do we also need to know:

 lean manufacturing, closed/virtual factory and methods of production (mass customisation, batch production etc.) because I'm not sure. We kinda skipped over this is class too..

Not sure about the Manufacturing component. What chapter was that covered in?

For Methods of Production, yes you need to know the different designs and layouts, because you would need to know how to apply one to an LSO's Operations System if you were given a question requiring knowledge from the topic. If you have a read over it and get a general idea and overview about them, then it should be enough. Reading it shouldn't take you more than half an hour. From memory, there was only a couple of pages on it, with another couple describing it in more detail or something.

Basically, have a read of it, and just understand the differences between them, and try apply it to an organisation to help improve your understanding.

[Jason12]

Not sure about the Manufacturing component. What chapter was that covered in?

It was in chapter 7 on optimising operations. I do know the types of layout like fixed position but there was a huge table describing all the different ways of producing things but I don't think it should be that necessary

[Damoz.G]

It was in chapter 7 on optimising operations. I do know the types of layout like fixed position but there was a huge table describing all the different ways of producing things but I don't think it should be that necessary

Hmmm....yeah. Just have a general idea about each of them so that if you were given a question relating to it, you have enough information to be able to explain and link it to the Case Study. If you can do this, then you know enough about the topic.